Have you all seen this post?

I noticed that too Marcia. My first thought was it was all made up, but when I did a "read recent posts" she had posts going back to 04. It's just weird.

I'm having a hard time buying it....seems to me there is something that isn't being told or said.....

Fishy!! I have heard (believeable, from reputable sources) of incompetent docs placing the band too high and going round the oesophagus rather than the stomach. But missing the stomach altogether!!!!???? I reckon even I could tell which was stomoch and which was other tissue!! And just pressing on the vagus nerve would NOT be satisfactory! You wold not get any restriction - jsut feel permanently full. Kate

NO WAY!~This is another figment of someone's imagination! I remember, no one by that name, and I've been here over 5 years, and used to LIVE on the board! You, know, anyone can put any date as to when they came on the board! Thanks for the laugh, Vicki!

I vote for, "Sounds like a bunch of bull."

I think it is somewhat possible, but I think her explanation is garbled or she didn't understand what her doc said. It sounds like, in addition to being placed around the stomach, it is also placed around some fatty tissue that was close to the stomach. I kind of wonder if the pt herself added the word "wrong" to it. Perhaps she got an explanation along the lines of "Here's what we did - this isn't how it is usually done, but I think it is just fine" and then she converted it to "It's been done wrong."