Saw this on FB, reposting here:

URGENT URGENT URGENT!!! Please spread the word far and wide in all your WLS landing (and professional, for medical peeps) places: VITALADY NEEDS HELP. She has an intussusception (sp?) in her duodenum where it connects to her stomach pouch. (She has DS-style guts, so yes, she does have a fragment of duodenum in her alimentary tract.) None of her docs has ever seen such a thing, so she is in deep ne...ed of connections with ANYONE with personal or professional experience.

Her main symptom is sudden and persistent nausea and vomiting, the former from pouch not emptying and the latter possibly from vagal nerve troubles. She cah't keep any weight on and sounds like she needs (a majorly depressing thought for her) TPN.

She also requests, and this is important as well, that anyone who needs to communicate with her to PLEASE CALL. Remember it's Pacific time and don't call before noon or so (she's incoherent in the morning under best of cir****tances), but she WANTS to hear from people. She is largely unable to handle using email or the forums, but can sit and talk. She NEEDS to be helping people. It's her reason for living. She NEEDS to hear success stories and cries for help alike. That's where she gets her "high." You are NOT intruding. You are helping her to feel alive, connected to the world and to her calling, to the people she loves.

Third, if you are a praying person, she specifically requests that you put her and Don on every prayer list/meeting/chain you know.

Please copy/paste if you wish, folks. She's in real trouble. I'm unlikely to be online again before tomorrow and this should go out quickly. Please be sure to blanket the Yahoo groups, FB groups, everywhere.

Thank you for posting. Yehuda was loved by so many of us.

I always looked forward to his posts here, and enjoyed having him as a friend on Facebook as well.. 

Yehuda's obvious intelligence and passionate commitment to helping others who struggle as he struggled was admirable.

What I enjoyed most about Yehuda was his kindness and compassion. He also had a wonderful sense of humor which made me laugh and smile. Like me, Yehuda was an animal lover, which, in my opinion, showed what a good soul he was.  

A light has gone from all our lives.

I am forever changed for the better having enjoyed Yehuda's presence in the weight loss surgery community and in my life. He will never be forgotten.

Rest in peace,, Yehuda, and thank you for being a friend.


Alyson