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Shame on the Canada Forum!

June 24 2009 at 9:25 PM
Anonymous  (Login TennyTen)
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You know ... Measha has undergone open heart surgery and no one posted it!

Hoping she is recovering well, and sending good energy out her way!

 
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cb
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Re: Shame on the Canada Forum!

June 24 2009, 10:37 PM 

If y'all were following my blog, you'd know this by now happy.gif

Seriously though, all best wishes to her - I hope it's a quick recovery!


- Visit the Canadian Opera Blog:http://canadianopera.blogspot.com/

 
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Villainesse
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I just heard about it..

June 25 2009, 12:24 AM 

wow...she so young to be dealing with that.


I wonder if it was exacerbated by the weight loss surgery she underwent.

Catherine

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Monster Soprano
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I found this ...

June 25 2009, 8:16 AM 

Poor thing.

Heart disease and blood pressure problems can be linked to obesity but, I know a few people that are very thin and super athletic that have had emergency open heart surgery. So, lets not even try to speculate why she is ill.

I just hope she takes care of herself first. Yes, the shows are important. Singing is important but, she really should take all the time to rest.

I wish her well.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/656319

 
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Anonymous
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it's hard to pinpoint .....

June 25 2009, 9:43 AM 

That so many people make the speculation that this may have been caused by the weightloss surgery alone, and no one knows the details, however, being someone who has been very close to having a wife get the procedure of weightloss like measha's studies did prove an enormous amount of side effects well into years after the loss.

Some of the things bariatric surgeons don't discuss is the side effect this kind of dramatic weightloss encompasses. One of which is where patients with a pre-disposition to hypertension can actually make matters worse after the surgery, and not immediately so ..... it can actually be quite a few years. I read patients who undergo this kind of drastic weightloss are more prone to further health complications within 5 years of the surgery than people who opt for the natural loss progression. The common risk is people who assume extremely active lifestyles after fighting a lifetime of obsity place the body in a stressful position after they lost the weight if done un-naturally. It can actually place the organs in a stressful state as the outside has changed but the inside has not had time to catch up with the physical demands one is placing on internal organs. This issue in particular has many symptoms which one could speculate is the main reason for measha's surgery.

The internal body especially needs a drastic amount of time in small segments to lose its weight and adjust as it goes along. I attended a "clinic" at a hospital in NYC this week, on malpractice issues (in which I specialize) and was told by a very well known Otolarygologist "dramatic weight loss effects the Thoracic muscles severly, we do not know why exactly, however, we do know it causes a domino effect in other regions of the body as well"

now I asked this as my wife is WW and it was a side line question as she has pondered with the idea of surgery before but after having access to reading the hundreds of cases within the courts on patients suing Dr's for non disclosure on this sugery, one becomes terribly aware of the major side effects this causes.


 
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Monster Soprano
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All I know is

June 26 2009, 9:46 AM 

That I am happy she is alive.

I know very well the positive and negative repercussions of weightloss.

 
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The Masked Researcher
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This type of tear can also be caused by syphillis!!!...

June 25 2009, 9:27 PM 

... I'll refrain from sharing the first thought that came to mind!!!

Back to the Stacks
TMR

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

 
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*shrug*

June 26 2009, 4:22 PM 

We all have our problems. I'm not saying anyone deserves it, but I know it has never helped me to engage in a lot of singer personal-story.

A friend's mother once said to her jealous daughter, "If you were her, you'd only have her problems".

Wise words.

...now flame away.


    
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CanadianOwl
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Measha's youtube message

June 28 2009, 1:28 PM 

The CBC showed an excerpt from this on Friday night's National:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ogW4yxeNm8

What really struck me is how different she looks. Having lost 50 lbs myself in the past month while in the hospital I can easily appreciate how that might happen.

 
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