DONT GET YOUR GALLBLADDER REMOVED!!!
...Unless you have Gallstones or some other gallbladder ailment. My wife was told that she had to have her gallbladder removed when she suffered from Gallstones. She has had terrible problems with acid reflux ever since. I understand that this is rare, but why would you remove an organ if was operating correctly.
Now as to lap vs open...
Open is safer but only because it is a mucher quicker proceedure, just under an hour vs 2-2.5 hours for the lap. I went with the lap proceedure because I wasn't crazy about being filleted open like a fish, the recovery time involved with the open proceedure is 2 to 3 times longer. With the lap I was back to work in 2 weeks, and I felt like I could have gone back even sooner.
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Heaviest/Pre/Current/Goal
368/329/215/220
RUN to LIVE
Lap RNY
January 3, 2006
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