Woman Made Her Daughter Orphan after Obesity Surgery

Kerry Greaves, a woman from York weighing 308 pounds, decided to get slim surgically so her daughter would not be teased at school. But she died after her stomach surgery.

Miss Greaves suffered serious complications after having gastric band. She died from organ failure despite 14 following operations to save her. The mother of the deceased, Anne Greaves, said that Kerry had done it for the sake of her daughter, Melissa, because she didn’t want her to be teased that her mother was fat.

Her relatives didn’t think she needed the operation, but she was determined. Anne Greaves is proud of her selfless daughter who made the decision for Melissa.

Gastric band surgery involves fitting a band around the stomach. Among possible complications are getting infected or, in rare cases, stomach perforation. This kind of surgery is the last resort when all the other methods to fight obesity failed and there is a major obesity-related health risk. There were cases when the surgery helped shed more than a half of a patient’s body weight. The associated death rate is said to be one in 2 000

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