This is really sad - I wish I would have caught that 20/20.

One of my livejournal buddies just lost a close friend from the same surgery. I think she died a month or two post-surgery because of a blood clot. She was only 30, I think.

I know I'm a carb "addict" myself, but are there really some people who are so far gone that the only thing left is to screw up their body permanantly? You can't cure the mental aspect - the addiction or binge eating disorder - with that surgery. I read (I wish I remember where) that a common problem is that the people still can't control their portions and *binge* afterwards - then puke. So Victoria, I guess the bulimia analogy is perfectly accurate. One woman died this way post-surgery - it ruptured her stomach.

Sad, indeed.