How do you deal with a negative co-worker is also a WLS post op?

I have a co-worker who had a gastric bypass four years ago at the age of 40. She has had very negative comments about me having this surgery. She succussfully lost 100% of her excess weight and has kept it off with no exercise and she eats whatever she wants, but she has a ton of excess skin hanging around. At that time she was a housewife and it took her five to six weeks to recover from an open rny. I am a 27 yo single mother of 2. My doctor has told me that I will be able to return to work two weeks after surgery. My doctor has also told me I will be having a G-tube for two weeks, begin a exercise routine in two weeks,a liquid diet the folling 4 weeks, a soft food diet 4 weeks following that, return to normal foods as tolerated after that. He said this was to minimalize leaks and complications. My co-worker begin eating regular foods apon release from the hospital. Her surgeon's sole practice is bariatrics and he also had wls himself, my surgeon is a very experienced and reputible general, vascular and bariatric surgeon. She flat out told me that I couldn't come back to work in two weeks and I needed to find a new doctor because the one I chose was and idiot (keeping in mind that we work for a cancer practice and we refer the majority of our patients to my surgeon to have there cancers removed). It is almost like she is saying anything to keep me from having this done. We work in a small business office with 10 other people, it's hard to avoid her and I don't want to be rude especially since I opened the door in the begining asking her about it. Now all I want is for her to do is shut up!

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