Does Anyone Have or Carry An Extremely Large Abdomen Being Short?

Does anyone who is "vertically" challenged like myself at 5'0" 290 lbs have a VERY large abdomen & had complications during surgery because of it? I carry a majority of my excess weight in my abdomen. I backside is flat, legs aren't that big or my arms. The surgeon even said I carry a majority of my weight in my abdomen. This caused problems during surgery & they had to stop because they think it was one of two things...lack of oxygen because of possible problems with my lungs that I'm not aware of or my abdomen being as large as it is was pushing up against my lungs causing lack of oxygen to my lungs. This caused my vitals to drop everytime they layed me on my back during surgery so the surgeon stopped surgery.

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