[quote=FlyerInHi]Not flu, because he doesn’t want surgery.
But if someone in middle age is serious about getting healthy, why not liposuction? That can be the catalyst or “catalytic converter” to a healthy future.
What do you guys think about that?[/quote]
I have learned that you really want to avoid surgery unless it’s a life threatening thing. Surgery can lead to a whole set of unexpected and unpredictable issues.
For me surgery to remove a colon that had a 99% chance or turning into cancer 5-6 years seemed like it was a good idea. Unfortunately, that surgery lead to desmoid tumors that while benign by itself is not so benign when they wrap around blood vessels and the small intestines.
Scar tissue, which is basically what a desmoid tumor is, can grow uncontrolled.
And it can happen when your body is traumatized, for example from surgery. And when you get it, it will be a bitch to control.If you are lucky, it stops growing once its not so pissed off..and it responds to one of the unproven chemos available. If you are slightly less lucky, you maintain it with regular surgery for the rest of your life. If you are slightly less lucky, you lose limbs and organs you really dont need. And if you are really fucked, you die from it.
So while a second surgery would probably have been a less painful and a quicker short term solution, god knows what sort of reaction my body would have had to that. I avoided it like the plague the second time around and opted for 3.5 years of chemo.
It amazes me how many people are so willing to get carved up, especially over non-life threatening/cosmetic things. Why put yourself in a situation where there might be complications, especially when you don’t need to?
