A Diary of Gastric Bypass Surgery: When the Benefits Outweigh the Costs - Softcover

Drummond, Darlene K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791474402 ISBN 13: 9780791474402

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2008

Synopsis

While gastric bypass surgery is often touted by the media as "the easy way out," and American health care professionals increasingly endorse weight loss surgery for a population plagued by obesity and its complications, A Diary of Gastric Bypass Surgery discloses the sacrifices, suffering, and commitment required to endure this complicated procedure. Using personal diary entries between 2002 and 2006, Darlene K. Drummond details her life-altering decision to undergo gastric bypass surgery. Drummond, an African American woman diagnosed as morbidly obese, diabetic, and hypertensive, describes her family history of chronic illness and obesity and shares conversations with health professionals, family, friends, coworkers, and support groups both before and after the procedure. She also includes her weekly grocery expenses, out-of-pocket medical expenses, reactions to media stories on celebrity personalities battling complications of obesity, as well as chronicles of the cognitive and behavioral changes she experienced along the way.

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Review

..".intensely poignant..." -- ForeWord Magazine

"This book is a compelling, well-detailed personal account of weight loss that contains valuable insight about a topic that is largely misunderstood by the general public. What a powerful narrative!" -- Mark P. Orbe, coauthor of Contemporary Issues in Interpersonal Communication

About the Author

Darlene K. Drummond is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Miami, Florida.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0791474402
• ISBN 13: 9780791474402
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 158