Can I just tell you, I am thoroughly disturbed. There's this show on TLC called Big Medicine. I just found the show last week. I was watching Little People Big World which is an amazing show about little people. If you haven't seen it, you should definitely check it out.
What I really wanted to tell you though is how crazy this Big Medicine show is. It's about a father/son surgery team that specializes in gastric bypass surgery. I definitely know how hard it is with overeating and being overweight, but gastric bypass is so lazy. I hate to say that because I understand it's the last resort for a lot of people, but it's true. They don't teach the people how to eat healthy, they just shrink their stomach so they eat less of the crap that's caused them to be fat to begin with. At least, it doesn't seem like they give them much therapy. They have a chick who does some counseling, but that's just to make the doctor's feel okay about doing the surgery. I do like these doctors though, they're funny, they have a great relationship and when they do surgery they have contests of how can do something faster or better. I'm not sure how I'd like seeing this if it was me they were doing the surgery on, but it's fun to watch!
They have one guy who's 730 pounds. Now, he got this way I'm sure because he had seven Big Mac's, 8 super sized fries, four "diet" cokes and eighteen apple pies for lunch. I mean, who knows, maybe not, but that's what I'm sure it takes to get that heavy. Anyway, I feel bad for the guy, and he's one of those cases where the surgery is the only thing he can do because he obviously has a serious problems with portion control.
Well, his insurance company doesn't think so and denies his claim to get the surgery. I mean, this guy is in serious need for some help. He can't move, he can't wash himself, nothing. All he can do is eat. So they deny his claim and he's clearly upset because it's basically a death sentence. When they try to move him out of the hospital after months of being there (instead of spending the money on the surgery early on) they can't even move him from the bed to the gurney. It's really sad and I'm curious to see what happens with this poor guy. He's in serious pain just being moved, and it takes nearly a dozen people.
They also have people who come in that do the surgery and they do the before/after pictures and it's amazing, they lose 60-90 pounds in just three or so months. Then there are the people who have already lost the weight and need to get the excess skin removed. This, I definitely understand. Now, if you lose that much weight so quickly you do have all of this skin that was so shocked about what happened it has no time to shrink up properly. They had this one guy who said that he's worked so hard to lose the weight that now he deserves to have the skin removed. Um, how the hell did he work hard? Did he go to the gym, cook his own food, eat right, no. He laid in a hospital bed for a few days and had his stomach shrunk. Seriously dude, more power to you, but you didn't work hard for shite. I'm sorry this bugs the crap out of me.
As much as it seems I've complained about this show, it's very interesting, even the annoying lazy people who choose to do this surgery. One good thing is watching the surgeries makes me not hungry.
