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S06.E14: Jennifer & Marissa's Story LIVE CHAT


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3 minutes ago, Stusan said:

Seems like he’s only doing the gastric sleeve these days. 

There’s got to be a joke there, but I can’t find it. Anyone?

 On a different episode, Dr. Now mentioned that the distance from the end of the esophagus to the small intestine is too great. These people’s abdomen stretch so much that the logistics  don’t work out. It’s easier for them to do a sleeve and not have to reconnect things. 

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7 minutes ago, Azubah said:

I believe most bariatric surgeons do several procedures in one day. They often only do the surgeries one or two days per week.

Gastric sleeve takes about two hours.  Gastric bypass about four hours.  I'm guessing that Dr. Now does the sleeve procedure on his "larger" patients to reduce the possible complications that can occur by them being under anesthesia for longer period of time and the bypass is more complicated than the sleeve.

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2 minutes ago, Stusan said:

Dang. My bed is going to shit and I REALLY want one of those purple mattresses. I’ve been researching awhile and it looks kind of awesome. 

Money though. Ugh. 

Don't bother- it's the "next big thing" that is completely useless... I work for a mattress manufacturer and the purple thing is just the latest (useless) trend...

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