WLS Patient Dies
This is just a little news item, but it is sad.
"Renee Williams, the 841-pound woman thought to be the largest ever to receive gastric bypass surgery, died Sunday night of a massive heart attack. Williams, 29, had undergone the increasingly popular solution to morbid obesity on Feb. 20 and was thought to be progressing well in the week and a half thereafter, said officials at Houston's Renaissance Hospital, where she had the surgery. But hospital officials today announced the sudden turn of events."
Wow, she was only 29. Here is a little article about her before she had the surgery, explaining how she gained the weight. (She was bedridden after an accident with a drunk driver crushed her leg.)
"Renee Williams, the 841-pound woman thought to be the largest ever to receive gastric bypass surgery, died Sunday night of a massive heart attack. Williams, 29, had undergone the increasingly popular solution to morbid obesity on Feb. 20 and was thought to be progressing well in the week and a half thereafter, said officials at Houston's Renaissance Hospital, where she had the surgery. But hospital officials today announced the sudden turn of events."
Wow, she was only 29. Here is a little article about her before she had the surgery, explaining how she gained the weight. (She was bedridden after an accident with a drunk driver crushed her leg.)
posted by mo pie at 1:05 PM
4 Comments:
It sounds like she was already 400lbs before getting hit by the car. It says she gained 450lbs from the accident, and she was 850lbs..... Doing some math means she must have been around 400lbs to start with.
Man, that article is crap with the reporting of details...
It also says she was hit by a car in 2005 and spent the next three years in bed. Even if she was hit by a car on Jan 1 2005, she could only have spent 2 years and 3 months in bed. Some details are wrong there.
Here is a different article on her, presurgery:
http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/txcn/austin/stories/020907kvuegastricbypass-cb.695a3c6b.html
Sounds like many doctors advised against the surgery due to her weight, and it mentions the risk of death as well.
It's unfortunate that was the eventual outcome.
I've got to agree witht the she was probably 400 pounds to start thing - if you go to the link Anon #3 posted (which didn't work for me) but then search for this woman, you can watch a video from just after they did the surgery. In it they say that she hasn't walked since she was hit by the drunk driver, and at the end they say that her injury could finally be fixed after she lost enough weight - meaning she was too heavy for it to be fixed when it happened.
Not that it is any less sad that she died or anything, or that she deserved anything for being fat when she got hit by the car. I've just been watching a CSI marathon so I'm all in detective analytical mode. :)
I wonder why the hospital did it at all, if over four years every other doctor turned her down because it was too risky. She had two daughters too. Sad.
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