It was on Tuesday night. She fought very hard to get by-pass surgery. She found one Dr. who was willing to take her on. She had a 5 1/2 hour procedure. She survived the surgery and was on her way to recovery and she died of a heart attack. It was a real bummer. I wanted to see her lose the weight and maybe have a happy ending... it just wasn't to be.

Obviously her weight caused her death not the surgery, but still they usually cover a successful patient.

Don

It was on Tuesday night. She fought very hard to get by-pass surgery. She found one Dr. who was willing to take her on. She had a 5 1/2 hour procedure. She survived the surgery and was on her way to recovery and she died of a heart attack. It was a real bummer. I wanted to see her lose the weight and maybe have a happy ending... it just wasn't to be.

Obviously her weight caused her death not the surgery, but still they usually cover a successful patient.

Don

I watched that show too. the Doc works on Super Obese patients. He will touch patients that other Drs. would turn down because of their BMI being too high

Dr. Nowzaradan is who did my re-banding. He was very thorough for me, as my surgery took over four hours. He is a good doctor, but overbooked. It is a nightmare going to an appointment. Just be prepared to wait. :wink:

I saw Oprah the other day start with her story. It was classic Oprah WLS bashing with a little bit of successful people to make it look like she was being balanced and fair.

The show I saw was three shows about three people, only the lady (beautiful hispanic Mom) died. The shows were called "half ton Dad, half ton teen, amnd half ton Mom." Very sad but a new life I think for the two that survived and maybe a valuable although painful lesson to the two daughters of the Mom who died. She seemed like a heck of a lady with a lot of courage to find by internet campaign a doc who would do the procedure on her! They were all great shows, the teen broke my heart. He was such a baby, his Mom treated him like he was two and fed him to keep him her baby, I think. I think she had lost a child and found it impossible to say no to him and wanted to keep him as a baby. Cali