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I found this article in the Washington Post, Super-size equipment helps D.C. area EMTs move the obese, thanks to a twitter post from Zombar, another post-op dude.
Basically it talks about the increasing need to upgrade and super-size ambulances and other medical equipment to handle the growing trend of a growing girth in the American populace, and as he put it, Thoughts of EMTs dragging me out of the house on a tarp is one of the myriad reasons I chose to have WLS.
This was the night before surgery
My name is Benson. I am 43 years old and on March 2 of this year I had Gastric Bypass Surgery. The techie description is Roux en-Y (RNY). At some point I am sure one of us will get into the technical specs on each surgery but for now I am going to focus on what brought me to that day and how it saved my tail.
I can say that like almost every “morbidly obese” guy I had struggled with weight most of my childhood. I spent 4 years in the Army fighting to stay under the pinch test weight standard, making it through some weeks but most of the time I was on Top’s remedial P.T. list. On the day I was discharged (May 89) I was sure of one thing. I was going to gain a little weight.
