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Zenomia · 04-04-2008, 06:24 AM

Anytime someone goes into surgery, via for weight loss or a gall stone, they are risking their lives. The risk is further frustrated by prior health problems, pre-op weight, and operative risk followed by poor health management post operatively. These risks are the same with Gastric bypass as they are for gall bladder surgery, or any other general anesthesia surgery. I don't doubt that most people going into this are at some stage of liver disease, though I think 90% is reaching a bit... Regardless, that is one of the reasons people do this, to reduce the fat in the liver and reverse the effects of obesity. In cases where people are over 300#'s, they have additional health complications, and are surgical risks to begin with..the odds of post-op complications can increase exponentially.

I do not have any information about your mothers case to comment to it one way or the other, all I can tell you is that bad things happen, things go wrong and no matter what we do or what we have done, the end results are unavoidable. Your mothers bypass may or may not have been related to her subsequent passing, there are just too much going on in the human body to drop simple blame. There are just too many factors...

I am sorry for your loss, I truly am. I might suggest learning more about your mothers health history and everything that led up to her passing, if you think it will help you get a 'bigger' picture of the situation. In that way, you can make informed statements regarding her case and give your cautions with accurate information.

This board is very much an advocate for education, be it good or bad. What we try to avoid are assumptions, opinions and suppositions that are not based on fact and have no medical accuracy.

Again, I am sorry for you loss....I can hear the pain of that loss in your post.