A man, about to undergo bypass surgery, is binging before the fateful day. A dubious use of medical dollars on someone who’s clearly doubtful to stay compliant post-surgery:
“I”m gonna go everywhere I wanna go. I”m gonna eat everything I wanna eat. I”m in full swing now,” said Stockbridge, a 325-pound, 5-foot-10-inch city worker who’’s halfway through a two-week binge as he hits all his favorite local food haunts prior to undergoing gastric bypass surgery.“I think I”m going to miss the buffets the most,” he added. “I always got my money’’s worth on the buffets.”
Stockbridge, 33, acknowledged that he’’s going “against medical advice at this point” as he valiantly tried but failed to finish off a 64-ounce prime rib ordered specially for him by the owner of C.F. Donovan’’s in Dorchester.
(photo courtesy of BostonHerald.com)
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Prediction: poor outcome. As one who participates regularly in bariatric surgery, I can say first that achieving some weight-loss before surgery empties the liver — to an impressive degree — of it’s stored fat and shrinks it enough to make the operation much easier. And second, that much committment to eating no matter the cost says the man will find a way to “beat” the bypass. It happens.
No way would I operate on this guy. He will develop complications, and of course it will be everyone elses fault except his own.
PS: I know the proper punctuation of “its” vs “it’s.” Don’t know what happened there, but it’s embarrassing.
“I think I’’m going to miss the buffets the most,” he added. “I always got my money’’s worth on the buffets.”
I wonder if he’ll feel he got “his money’s worth” from the operation after his wounds dehisce at the local buffet a week post-op.
I wonder if the complications he’s inviting were explained to him in all their appropriate horror. A slideshow, perhaps.
What a sick beast!
“Its a glandular problem.”
Hah! No it is not. The problem is that these fat beasts have no self control and cram their pieholes with every manner of beastfood that they can find. Mothers… Keep you children away from these beasts lest you find your child crammed into their gullets
Bad prognosis! And… who will operate him? I’ll never operate this dumb,
He should see a psychiatrist.
Bariatric management shold be multidisciplinary. When first evaluating this kind of patients, a psychologist or psychiatrist will reject this patient as a candidate.
Amazing how low someone will stoop for their 15 minutes of fame. Sure, he may be slovenly glutton, but geez man, have some self respect.
The overweight folk who are at least trying should be all over this porker who is seriously damaging the idea of obesity as a medical disease vs merely bad behavior gone wild.
I hope the surgery works out for him. Doesn’t seem likely if this is his mindset, but I do wish him well.
I agree, poor prognosis due to poor motivation. This man doesn’t want to change the habits that made him obese in the first place. He doesn’t want to be a meaningful participant in his own effort to lose weight and become healthier; he wants someone else to do that for him. No insight at all. He is behaving as if his surgeon is a magician.
And I agree, if this fails, he will probably blame someone else for his failure.
Really, he is a poor surgical candidate.
Is this man’s behavior as he approaches gastric bypass surgery really any different many people’s behavior?
How many people, for example, who are contemplating quitting smoking go on a smoking binge before they quit?
I don’t know, how many people do go on a binge before quitting smoking? It doesn’t seem like this is the most productive way to initiate a new and permanant lifestyle change. The very act of binging in any manner suggests a degree of poor self control that would predict continued recalcitrant behavior.
Regardless of any theories to explain obesity, the actual behavior of eating is the final common pathway for all. If one is unable or unwilling to excercise a little conscious control over their reflexive primitive and animalistic behavior then there will be no success for weight loss.
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