Bariatric surgery has been a bête noire of mine from the beginning. You’ve got better odds of survival being a POW. (There is no Geneva Convention for experimental surgery.)

Yes, people who had chunks of their digestive system taken out for unhealing ulcers, cancer, or injury lost a lot of weight in the aftermath. YA THINK?

Part of it is healing and part of it is that the whole system is stunned like the victim of a car crash. But the body struggles to survive. And the appetite (the villain of the piece) returns.

Then they get to feed convalescent hunger with a stomach the size of a golf ball. There’s circles of hell I’d rather visit than that.

One of my recent health issues resulted in me researching those drugs which switch off auto-immune. Sometimes it’s the only choice to save your life.

But, like bariatric surgery, it’s a devil’s bargain and you never know when he will show up.