Weight Loss Surgery After Age 50: The Geriatric Bariatric Life

by Rita Laws

This memoir of one woman's fifty-year struggle with super morbid obesity (BMI of 63) culminates in lasting improvement at age sixty-two after gastric bypass surgery. Funny and devastating, it chronicles her weight war through multiple weight loss attempts, diets, support groups, regaining pounds, co-morbidities, battles with health insurance companies, and an earlier stomach band surgery that was nearly fatal.
Now at age sixty-five and 113 pounds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09HVGPKLR
• ISBN13: 9798492953195
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"