I am really bothered.

I dont even know how I feel but I know venting on here will help. I am so so shocked by the deaths lately. It just seems to be happening to much. I dont want to scare any pre-ops but I have to share. When I was pre-op I knew the risk but I thought It never happens. Im 2 weeks out and what a shock. It does happen. Not that I would have changed my mind and I feel great, I am just in shock (for lack of better words.) Im not a real religious person but God bless our friends and families. Im rambling and not making much sense so i will go but please everyone say a prayer for the friends who have passed trying to make their lives better. LaDonna

Thank you ladonna, Its true it seems just as my date is comming up so fast that it is more noticable that we are loosing our Friends to complications, I read in my doctors office somewhere that the longer you are out from wls, the better chance you have of being complication free, well i dont know about that! Just today I got a phone call from another friend who had wls on march 4th and she just got home today due to a severe infection in her abdomen,the doc was giving her a 50/50 chance of survival due to the fact that the infection was so deep... she said it shot out like a lil boy urinating, which turned out to be a good thing that it drained in the hospital, but such a severe infection in 3 days is scarry!!I know we are all taking a chance by putting our faith and our lives in our surgeons hands but what the heck is going on, this is so darn! Prayers are needed to get us all through this! God bless all the Marchers Dear Lord!

I understand LaDonna. When I got onto this board in February and our surgery dates approached I thought to myself about the statistics of death related to complications from this surgery. Even though the posted stats are between 1/2% & 1%, my surgeon said he believes the average is more like 2%. I looked and I saw that we had in excess of 200 names on our March board and I wondered. It is interesting because we all know the risks from an intellectual perspective but experiencing it emotionally is so different when it actually happens. You are certainly making sense to me. Shalom for now. Caboose

Mary I'm right behind ya. I getting worried also but I won't stop now. I have to take the chance. My surgeon is one of the top surgeons in the country so I feel like I'm in good hands but that doesn't mean 100% you know? All I can do is let my family know that if something happens, I was doing something I had to do for myself. I don't post much on here but I read posts everyday. Good luck to all you marchers!!! Cindy

I remember when the board first started and we had like 160 people by then and someone saying statistically 4 of the 160 would not make it, and this is scary for everyone. I will continue to pray for everyone, every morning and be keeping you all in my mind! ~Nicole

I agree it is really hard. This board has people all over the country, will all possible kinds of doctors and care, and all types of individual histories, both low and high risk. So we are going to see it all...good and bad. And feel our own decisions tested. Gano