Your Cheating Heart.
Years ago I was some 85 to 100 pounds over weight. It didn't feel bad but it didn't look good. So about in 2005 I ponied up for bariatric surgery. I had a Roen Y operation where they take your stomach and cut it in two pieces. They form a residual stomach with one and a small, wall nut sized stomach with the other. Your intestines are rerouted so that all the food passes to the small stomach, as do the bile, liver and pancreas ducts. It worked wonderfully for about ten years.My weight stayed a littl over 100Lbs below its original. I looked pretty good. Pants sizes went from 44 to 30, Suits from 50 to 38L. Then, things began to change. It was so slow I hardly recognized it. but in 9 years I had gained about 60% of my original weight back. And I seemed to be out of breath and sick a lot of the time. I was what people say was grazing. You know, taking little bites of anything that came my way Often. OK so the weight came back. I could almost live with that. But then earlier this year I started having severe abdominal pain of the type I never had before. I went to the doctor, Emergency actually, They diagnosed gallbladder infection and stones in the bile duct. They said I had more gallstones than Alibaba's cave. and true to form, I started having heart problems. Atrial Flutter to be exact. After numerous conversation with many medical specialists I found that roen Y surgery causes many problems due to mineral absorption. None of these were made known to me during the initial work-up. Or if they were, when they happened they were buried in past memories. Gallstones, And worse yet, the operation to remove the gallbladder and stones, which is now 3 hours outpatient, can be Open Surgery! Or at best is laproscopic from the left side all the way to the right. It is an eight hour operation and in hospital rather than a simple outpatient. Nowdays they usually take the gallbladder with they do the Roen Y. Removing or operating on the liver pancreas or other organs can also be effected by the Roen Y. And because of absorption there may be Heart issues in the future. I suppose this is off kilter from the normal conservative politics of my blog. Just wanted you to know that all clouds do not have a silver lining.
