With people like this, when the doctor sits them down and says the harsh legal disclaimers, instead of any actual thinking going on in their heads, they just get really stubborn and dig in their heels without asking questions or introspection about if it's a good idea. They use it as an opportunity to show how "fierce" they are, basically.
The doctor will go "There is risk of stroke, stopping breathing, you might die, do you understand?" And she'll just put on her best Brave Confident Boss Woman voice to say "Yes, 1000% yes, oh yes I fully understand and I'm
SO ready."
She is not so ready.
And by the time the doctor is asking those questions, the doctor doesn't really give a shit either- it's just about liability.
"Dr. Jaime Schwartz uses TIVA-assisted (Total Intravenous Anesthesia) lipedema surgery, which is akin to localized anesthesia, except the patient is asleep during the duration of the procedure and breathing on their own. TIVA ensures a speedier recovery process without the common, adverse effects of anesthesia, making the road to recovery a lot less bumpy."
They're claiming their Total Intravenous
Anesthesia somehow avoids the common adverse effects of
anesthesia? From what I understand they're comparing some form of twilight sedation towards total anesthesia, but it's still.... kinda misleading imo....
This medical arc and the pivot to being "chronically ill" is hitting so much harder and faster than I thought. If these surgeries were magic perfect successes, Anna would be a skinny kween, right? And she wouldn't need to brand herself as
chronically ill, she'd say she was on a glow-up journey or something. I think she knows there's a high risk that she'll get fucked up in one way or another. That the recovery will be bad or she might have complications.
Or maybe she literally thinks that she's going to just repeatedly get her fat squeezed out of her for the rest of her life.
Obviously it's physically impossible for her to life a lifestyle that doesn't involve eating thousands of excess calories per day, and so she thinks the way to not become a bedbound whale is to have repeated surgery. I am sure it does not work like that, but I could see Anna believing she can live like that in the same way she obviously thought her choice of housing would turn her into a certain type of person.