Reply #77: I wish someone had talked Gram out of her open heart surgery... [View All]

[Magrittes Pipe]

...when she had 95% arterial blockage. Wow, she only lived 16 more years. It could have been....

NONE. If she hadn't gone under then knife, she would have been dead within the year. No, a quadruple-bypass is not the same thing as WLS, and it's an older procedure. But the thought of someone going around telling people not to have potentially life-saving surgery, just because of the POSSIBLE side effects, is just fucking sick.