Karlottap wrote: »

I can definitely see why my mother and sister are considered to be WLS failures. They drink when they eat, drink diet cokes, eat too fast, and eat too much. My mother eats until vomiting every time we go to a restaurant. Plus neither of them take their vitamins! My mother's surgery was in the late 1980s and sister early 1990s, so educating patients wasn't priority. But they never followed up with the surgeon after their immediate post op visits either. I am a RN and it is hard for me to see patients being so non-compliant with their health, especially when it's family. I talk to them until I am blue in the face and it does no good. Oh well, cant worry about everything. Just please, don't be like them. The effects of no vitamins is showing on my mom too. She used to be six feet tall and now is 5'8". The osteoporosis, which she has known about for many years, is making her spine shrink, plus she is getting a hump on her upper back.