A week from today...
I'm starting to get nervous. I have the utmost confidence in my surgeon; he has an excellent reputation and track record, and he has done thousands of these procedures. I'm just getting the jitters. This is a major surgery, and the possibility exists that something could go wrong. I'm not expecting complications, but they could happen...and that scares me.
This is not something to undertake lightly.
I looked around online today to see if I could find a blog by another bypass patient, and instead I found a blog by the Fat Acceptance Society, which was rabidly and blatantly anti-weight loss surgery. The things said in that blog and in the comments on it were vicious and cruel. These people were saying that gastric bypass is a "diet craze" and that it is completely unnecessary...that this surgery is the easy way out, and that all an overweight person has to do is stop overeating.
If it were that easy I wouldn't be overweight! I wouldn't be suffering from arthritis, and hobbling around in pain every day! I will readily admit that I have contributed to the problem, but my eating habits are NOT the entire problem. I have done the research, I have searched my heart, and I honestly feel that this surgery is the best answer for my long-term health. I was NOT pushed into this by any surgeon. This is MY decision, not anyone else's!
The people on this blog had many other cruel things to say that do not bear repeating. It bothered me that other people who have weight problems could be so nasty about something that affects heavy people. I can understand that they don't approve of the surgery for themselves...but why attack others who make that choice? It's hurtful, damaging, and uncalled for.
This surgery is most certainly NOT the easy way out, and anyone that thinks so hasn't done their homework.
**getting down off soapbox**
This is not something to undertake lightly.
I looked around online today to see if I could find a blog by another bypass patient, and instead I found a blog by the Fat Acceptance Society, which was rabidly and blatantly anti-weight loss surgery. The things said in that blog and in the comments on it were vicious and cruel. These people were saying that gastric bypass is a "diet craze" and that it is completely unnecessary...that this surgery is the easy way out, and that all an overweight person has to do is stop overeating.
If it were that easy I wouldn't be overweight! I wouldn't be suffering from arthritis, and hobbling around in pain every day! I will readily admit that I have contributed to the problem, but my eating habits are NOT the entire problem. I have done the research, I have searched my heart, and I honestly feel that this surgery is the best answer for my long-term health. I was NOT pushed into this by any surgeon. This is MY decision, not anyone else's!
The people on this blog had many other cruel things to say that do not bear repeating. It bothered me that other people who have weight problems could be so nasty about something that affects heavy people. I can understand that they don't approve of the surgery for themselves...but why attack others who make that choice? It's hurtful, damaging, and uncalled for.
This surgery is most certainly NOT the easy way out, and anyone that thinks so hasn't done their homework.
**getting down off soapbox**
posted by DameKitten at 5:43 PM
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