We frequently encounter news stories online related to bariatric weight-loss surgery, and we do our best to cover as many of them as possible on this blog.
But few stories go into as much detail or provide as much coverage of the patient’s experience as does this story on TwinCities.com. Kudos to the editorial staff for giving such an in-depth look into the experiences of a bariatric surgery patient, who in this case underwent a gastric bypass surgery.
This article also contains a photo slideshow narrated by the patient herself, who is obviously sincere about educating others on bariatric surgery (a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure).
Story excerpt:
Don’t tell Lisa Huppert that bariatric weight-loss surgery is the easy way out of obesity. ‘If anyone ever says that,’ she says, ‘I’m going to smack them.’ It’s Day 15 since surgeons cut open her abdomen and stapled her stomach, shrinking it from softball to pingpong-ball size in one hour.