It’s called eating a proper diet and moving around people. Shove less down your pie-hole and move more. I guarantee you’ll lose weight. And always consult a physician during the process to ensure you’re still fueling your body properly. I don’t know much about the type of surgery performed here, so have no opinion on the case itself other than had the teen: 1)not been allowed to get morbidly obese and; 2)been put on a proper diet and moved more; this wouldn’t have happened.
AMEN lastbat! That mother should have been cited as unfit for allowing her son to get to that point. Now she is trying to profit from her own lack of parenting.
He was a football player (linebacker) and weight lifter- have you seen the stats on linebackers in HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL? A big part of why I hope my son never plays is that they are constantly being told that if they weigh under 300 lbs, they don’t stand a chance of playing in college.
The average linebacker in high school is well over 330lbs. These are teenagers being told to pack on the pounds.
Millions of teenagers that do what their coaches tell them to and don’t get into college face the prospect of having to lose well over a hundred pounds. And no idea how to do it, since they’ve spent the better part of their adolescence trying to gain weight.
If you read the stats on high school football and the emphasis on gaining weight, you might not be so quick to judge his mother.
Not saying I agree with it. Just saying that it happens.
My husband had gastric bypass surgery June of 2007. He was 420 lbs. and has lost 220 lbs. He has never been this small in all of his adult life. Just to get to the surgery you must endure months of psychological evaluations, diets monitored by dieticians, medical tests to evaluate your fitness for the surgery and group therapy.
It is not an easy decision as there are very grave risks.
I understand it is hard for many people that have never been that heavy to understand that tradition weight loss is not an option when you get that heavy. I had a very hard time understanding why my husband couldn’t just loose the weight. But eventually the weight makes you so lethargic that just eating a “sensible” meal puts on extra weight.
I understand why the mother of this 19 year old let her son have the surgery. She is not a bad mother because she cared about her son. He is also 19, so it was more his decision than hers anyway.
The fact that his doctors didn’t check for leakage is a serious problem. With in the first month after my husband’s surgery, he saw the doctor 4 times and she did a thorough evaluation every time.
Glad the doctors are being punished for their mistake. Glad the award was not large.
I have handled many a failed bariatric surgery case over the years 1980 to 1999 and this one is egregious – just based on the fact it was a 19 year old patient. The fast fat fix surgery industry generates molti scudi for hospitals and the docs who perform the re-plumbing procedures. To ‘qualify’ one must be adjudged at least 100 pounds over “normal’ weight for height and body structure. Plus they must “pass’ a psychological screening administered by, of course, the team that solicited the patient for the surgery in the first place. If, however, the claim vs: the Doc was an ‘undiscovered post-op leak” then the case resolves into a straight up post-op surgical complication matter and the jury did not, in my opinion, over-reach in the award
Ah, but traditional weight-loss is feasible for people of any weight as long as they can physically move. Lethargy is something that can be overcome by sheer will-power. We all, regardless of our weight and physical fitness, experience days when we just don’t feel as energized as we normally do. It takes willpower to push on and move. That’s not saying drive yourself to exhaustion, but move.
And really, that’s all it is – move. You don’t have to run, you don’t have to join a gym, lift weights or do anything else the television tries to sell us. You just have to move. That might mean walking to change the t.v. channel instead of using the remote. Watch television standing up. Eat standing up. Park further from the door when you go shopping. All of these will help with weight loss. And obese people should probably not try to drop over a 1,000 calories a day from their diet. It’s good enough, and healthier, to drop 500 calories a day. Most people don’t even notice the loss of 500 calories a day and they drop a pound a week. (3,500 calorie deficit over time = 1 pound of weight lost in that time span)
Part of the problem, in general, that we see in America is we expect instant results with our bodies. Dropping a pound or two a week is healthy; dropping 10 pounds a week is not. Patience and perserverence are key.
And I do blame the mother and father for this particular case because it is very doubtful the kid became morbidly obese just in his adulthood. They needed to teach him good habits while he was young so he wouldn’t get that way in the first place.
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It’s called eating a proper diet and moving around people. Shove less down your pie-hole and move more. I guarantee you’ll lose weight. And always consult a physician during the process to ensure you’re still fueling your body properly. I don’t know much about the type of surgery performed here, so have no opinion on the case itself other than had the teen: 1)not been allowed to get morbidly obese and; 2)been put on a proper diet and moved more; this wouldn’t have happened.
AMEN lastbat! That mother should have been cited as unfit for allowing her son to get to that point. Now she is trying to profit from her own lack of parenting.
He was a football player (linebacker) and weight lifter- have you seen the stats on linebackers in HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL? A big part of why I hope my son never plays is that they are constantly being told that if they weigh under 300 lbs, they don’t stand a chance of playing in college.
The average linebacker in high school is well over 330lbs. These are teenagers being told to pack on the pounds.
Millions of teenagers that do what their coaches tell them to and don’t get into college face the prospect of having to lose well over a hundred pounds. And no idea how to do it, since they’ve spent the better part of their adolescence trying to gain weight.
If you read the stats on high school football and the emphasis on gaining weight, you might not be so quick to judge his mother.
Not saying I agree with it. Just saying that it happens.
Not knowing all the details, but have to questions why three doctors would recommend surgery for a 19 yr old boy.
I imagine this was an elective surgery. Why not try a diet first?
I could see a malpractice suit just for recommending the surgery, let alone the outcome.
Sorry Dawn, but the average highschool linebacker weighs around 200 lb’s.
The average NFL defensive lineman might weigh close to 330 lbs.
My husband had gastric bypass surgery June of 2007. He was 420 lbs. and has lost 220 lbs. He has never been this small in all of his adult life. Just to get to the surgery you must endure months of psychological evaluations, diets monitored by dieticians, medical tests to evaluate your fitness for the surgery and group therapy.
It is not an easy decision as there are very grave risks.
I understand it is hard for many people that have never been that heavy to understand that tradition weight loss is not an option when you get that heavy. I had a very hard time understanding why my husband couldn’t just loose the weight. But eventually the weight makes you so lethargic that just eating a “sensible” meal puts on extra weight.
I understand why the mother of this 19 year old let her son have the surgery. She is not a bad mother because she cared about her son. He is also 19, so it was more his decision than hers anyway.
The fact that his doctors didn’t check for leakage is a serious problem. With in the first month after my husband’s surgery, he saw the doctor 4 times and she did a thorough evaluation every time.
Glad the doctors are being punished for their mistake. Glad the award was not large.
I ate so much I busted the staples and gained the weight back.
I have handled many a failed bariatric surgery case over the years 1980 to 1999 and this one is egregious – just based on the fact it was a 19 year old patient. The fast fat fix surgery industry generates molti scudi for hospitals and the docs who perform the re-plumbing procedures. To ‘qualify’ one must be adjudged at least 100 pounds over “normal’ weight for height and body structure. Plus they must “pass’ a psychological screening administered by, of course, the team that solicited the patient for the surgery in the first place. If, however, the claim vs: the Doc was an ‘undiscovered post-op leak” then the case resolves into a straight up post-op surgical complication matter and the jury did not, in my opinion, over-reach in the award
I’d like to see that research…linebackers do not weigh more than 275 lbs, let alone 330.
Ah, but traditional weight-loss is feasible for people of any weight as long as they can physically move. Lethargy is something that can be overcome by sheer will-power. We all, regardless of our weight and physical fitness, experience days when we just don’t feel as energized as we normally do. It takes willpower to push on and move. That’s not saying drive yourself to exhaustion, but move.
And really, that’s all it is – move. You don’t have to run, you don’t have to join a gym, lift weights or do anything else the television tries to sell us. You just have to move. That might mean walking to change the t.v. channel instead of using the remote. Watch television standing up. Eat standing up. Park further from the door when you go shopping. All of these will help with weight loss. And obese people should probably not try to drop over a 1,000 calories a day from their diet. It’s good enough, and healthier, to drop 500 calories a day. Most people don’t even notice the loss of 500 calories a day and they drop a pound a week. (3,500 calorie deficit over time = 1 pound of weight lost in that time span)
Part of the problem, in general, that we see in America is we expect instant results with our bodies. Dropping a pound or two a week is healthy; dropping 10 pounds a week is not. Patience and perserverence are key.
And I do blame the mother and father for this particular case because it is very doubtful the kid became morbidly obese just in his adulthood. They needed to teach him good habits while he was young so he wouldn’t get that way in the first place.