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Need Advice for My Family
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Why not direct your mum to this site, so she can see how many people are well after the surgery and how they have benefitted?
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When I had my surgery, my mother was the only person who was dead set against the surgery. But when I looked through her eyes - this is what she saw: I was her primary care giver. If something
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Well, these surgeries all sound scary since you're making pretty significant changes to your anatomy. At the same time, you're making changes to your anatomy if you needed surgery to have your gallbl
My mom is deathly afraid of me having bypass. She doesn't nag me or preach to me, but some comments she makes give me the impression that she's freaking out on the inside. Thanks to this forum and other sources I'm loaded with knowledge, more than I can share with her in one sitting or in terms she can grasp. That knowledge has alleviated my fear of the surgery and the life after. How I can help my mom understand that this surgery is not going to make me wither away and die?
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