From Reuters Health:
Detrimental blood flow and breathing changes are common in obese patients undergoing laparoscopic, or “keyhole,” gastric bypass surgery. Therefore, invasive monitoring with a blood vessel catheter may be warranted to assure a safe operation, new research suggests.
From Herald-Dispatch.com:
Sarah Humble remembers the first time someone flirted with her after she had gastric bypass surgery in January of 2004.
She was at Wal-Mart. She was looking at a hot pink workout suit, and she was saying that she wasn’t sure how she’d look in it. A man she didn’t know told her, “It will look lovely on you, and you will look very hot,” Humble recalls.
“I didn’t know how to react,” she said. “My son was about to throw up.”
Since the surgery 10 months ago, Humble, a 48-year-old physical therapist from Huntington, has lost about 135 pounds. Her body mass index — which is a weight-height ratio — has dropped from an unhealthy 45 to a healthy 25.
She can sit down in a chair with arms on it, and get right back up without touching the sides. She can water ski.
“The other night, for the first time in 20 years, I ran,” she said. She took out her 7-month-old golden retriever, Belle, and they ran together.
But best of all, she said, she feels good about herself.
“If you would have told me before that I was depressed, I would have denied it. But looking back now, I was,” she said. “I have a totally different outlook now on work, friends and family. The glass is half full.”
But it hasn’t been easy. Like others who have had gastric bypass surgery, Humble also attests that it’s no quick fix.