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

Dear Adrienne, I totally agree with everything you said. If 1 in 50 die from this surgery, how come I do not know anyone dying from it??? I have had a weight problem since I was 8 years old. I have lost and gain 100's of pounds my whole life. I decided when I was 36 that my way of losing weight was not working (even though my first psychologist said I could lose weight on my own and delayed my surgery.) I had 3 FIRST cousins have WLS and they lost 100's of pounds. I saw how much happier and healthier they have become because of this surgery and wanted that for myself. Thanks Again for the Wonderful Post!!! The -107 lbs since July 2003 Shrinking Tami

I say all us Pro-Ops track down the media culprits...and SIT on them for a while!!! LOL!!! They would then know what it is like to carry all that extra weight on their frames! Mike