Has anyone thought of or have asked their doc about keeping the part of the stomach thats being cut away?

To be honest with you that thought did cross my mind for a second. That’s all it ended up being for me though was a passing thought and I never truly gave it serious consideration.

53 minutes ago, CrissCriss said:

Has anyone thought of or have asked their doc about keeping the part of the stomach thats being cut away?

That's routine with the two surgeons in this practice.

They do a quick photo session ... 3 or 4 angles. Then the stomach piece goes off to the pathology lab for testing and reports. Some of that data is kept for a regional longitudinal study.

I kept mine and then ate it once I was able to eat soft foods, kinda weird I know. I felt as though I had to, as a rite of passage.

4 minutes ago, Walter.Sobchak said:

I kept mine and then ate it once I was able to eat soft foods, kinda weird I know. I felt as though I had to, as a rite of passage.

Lol.....Your totally kidding right?

Lol.....Your totally kidding right?

Yeah, just trying to be funny. I would have liked to have seen pictures of it. My surgeon told my wife that my stomach was huge. I believe it, I could easily eat a large pizza in one sitting with no issues.

It's no weirder than people eating their placenta!!!!! LOL But ha ha NO.

I would like to see pictures and I know they take pics.

They put your stomach in formalin which is basically poison, not to mention its surely a pietri dish for bacteria. They all look mostly the same.