the media has Me Pissed!!!

Hi ALL, This is my take on this whole darn 1/50 mortality rate from WLS thing. When you are Obese the statistics say blah blah blah % of Obese die. They say we are lazy that we have low self esteem and that we need to just pull back from the table. So, what do we do? we go on a diet and start to loose weight spend tons of money on the weight loss crap. Then what? We gain it back and then some, they say we did not try hard enough, we have no will power. Ok then we have a more permanent form of weight loss which is what? the surgery and now they say blah blah blah % died due to complications from the surgery. I said all of that to say this, we are in a no WIN situation with the Media and their @#$$%&$!!!! Statistics. I say to hell with them all, because we stand a greater RISK of MORTALITY by being Obese than we do haviing the surgery. Complications arise in every facet of everyday life. There are people who die from a routine exploratory surgery, do we hear about that? No. There are women who die giving birth, there are people who die after having a tooth pulled. But none of these things are broadcast. It is just another way to TRY and I stress TRY and keep the BIG KIDS DOWN!!! But here on OH we got news for them, we are NOT backing down, we say have fun with your statistics and CRAP because we are finally going to do something for US and we are going to stand up for what we believe in. That is why this site is so vital and it is so important to support one another because we have so many odds against us. This is not the worlds fight this is our FIGHT and together if we stand TALL we can win this thing. Good Luck to all of the PRE- OPS and just know that although this is not an easy task you have a lot of support here for you when you cross over. You can email me anytime and I will respond I will even call you if you need to talk. Just no that you are not alone we are here to help. Love ya!!! Adrienne

Hi Adrienne~ I must agree with you. I am sick of skinny people telling me how to lose weight and how important it is. Have they done it? NO !!! I have started to tell people that I am going to die from being fat anyway so why not give the surgery a try. I get mad at the insurance companies too. They would rather fork out tons of money on meds and let us die than help us. What a pain !!! I have been writing letters to skinny Congress men too. I am hoping they will force insurance companies to stop the discrimination against fat people. I wonder if these people would have been voted into office if they were obese? I doubt it !!! Would the media people have a job if they were obese? Not very often !!! I hope I never catch myself judging someone like the world judges obese people. I really wish these self-appointed experts would start listening to the doctors and researchers that have studied the obese and dieting !!! Keep fighting the good fight !!! Kari

Thanks for the response Kari, i really appreciate it. You sound as heated as I was when I wrote this. Adrienne