Gastric bypass - psycho

[brax881]

Do any other nurses deal with post gastric bypass patients and the difficulties they have as a result of their procedure? I find a lot of gastric bypass patients to be extremely rude and demanding. The other day another nurse and I were splitting a room, I had B bed and the other nurse had A bed. The gastric bypass patient in A bed began complaining to her nurse that she wanted regular sugar and jello and not all this diet stuff. The nurse explained to her that the doctor ordered a clear liquid gastric bypass diet and explained the advantages of being placed on that type of diet. The patient did not care she began to yell at the nurse stating that all the other nurses brought her in a regular tray and that she was just being difficult. For the second time the nurse told the patient that she would place a call to the doctor to try to have the diet changed. The patient was utterly obnoxious to the nurse. The nurse walked out and the patient called the nursing coordinator. She explained her exaggerated story to the coordinator. The coordinator must have told the patient that the nurse was handling it appropriately, because I heard the patient say, "you don't see a problem with this?" And began yelling and screaming all sorts of rude things. In report nurses just cringed ever time they have a patient with a history of gastric by bypass, and ask are they psycho? Anyone else find gastric bypass patients to be difficult?

[ktwlpn, LPN]

It's such a tragedy that our way of life in the US leads to such a state that a growing percentage of people are becoming more and more obese. Perhaps we should begin at square one and try to figure out a better path, a better way that doesn't lead to such a tragic middle, end, and back-end for scores of people.

I guess I just want to say that perhaps a greater emphasis on preventative measures would be a first step....

IMHO

Mark

If prevention worked we'd be a society of fit and non- smoking non -drinking non-drugging non STD'ing and non teen pregnancy people ....--and that ain't happening . However-rent "Supersize Me" It sheds alot of light on portion size and how we've been conditioned to think that way too much is just enough.. Another problem we have is we equate plenty of food with love..Our parents told us " children are starving in China-clean that plate" and then if you didn't poop every day you got a does of castor oil.We are products of that food and bowel obsessed generation. Also when we were growing up most of us had moms home-dinner time was family time.I can honestly say that I loved sitting down with mom and dad.We read poetry,had spelling bee's and told jokes...On the other hand my husband comes from a family of 7 and his father wanted no chit chat at the table and my hubbie frequenly got scolded when he was little.To this day he eats and runs...My family will sit and drink coffee for hours.