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https://www.upmc.com/services/bariatrics/candidate/risks-and-complications

Bariatric Surgery Risks, Complications and Side Effects
All surgical procedures carry risks. Your surgeon will explain all potential bariatric surgery complications, both short and long term, and answer any questions.
What Are the Most Common Post-Op Risks and Side Effects Associated with Bariatric Surgery?
Some bariatric surgery risks include:

• Acid reflux
• Anesthesia-related risks
• Chronic nausea and vomiting
• Dilation of esophagus
• Inability to eat certain foods
• Infection
• Obstruction of stomach
• Weight gain or failure to lose weight

Bariatric Surgery Long-Term Risks
Bariatric surgery carries some long-term risks for patients, including:

• Dumping syndrome, a condition that can lead to symptoms like nausea and dizziness
• Low blood sugar
• Malnutrition
• Vomiting
• Ulcers
• Bowel obstruction
• Hernias

Overview of Bariatric Surgery Risks and Complications by Procedure
Risks and side effects vary by bariatric procedure. The following list is not all-inclusive, but briefly outlines risks of gastric bypass and gastric sleeve.
Your bariatric surgeon will make sure you understand the risks and complications of your specific procedure.
Risks of Gastric Bypass:

• Breakage
• Dumping syndrome
• Gallstones (risk increases with rapid or
  substantial weight loss)
• Hernia
• Internal bleeding or profuse bleeding of the
  surgical wound
• Leakage
• Perforation of stomach or intestines
• Pouch/anastomotic obstruction or bowel obstruction
• Protein or calorie malnutrition
• Pulmonary and/or cardiac problems
• Skin separation
• Spleen or other organ injury
• Stomach or intestine ulceration
• Stricture
• Vitamin or iron deficiency

Risks of Gastric Sleeve:

• Blood clots
• Gallstones (risk increases with rapid or
  substantial weight loss)
• Hernia
• Internal bleeding or profuse bleeding of the
  surgical wound
• Leakage
• Perforation of stomach or intestines
• Skin separation
• Stricture
• Vitamin or iron deficiency

Reducing Your Bariatric Surgery Risks
You can help lower some of the risks and possible side effects by:

• Decreasing your Body Mass Index (BMI)
• Increasing your amount of exercise
• Stopping smoking

 

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- The last lines are interesting especially the one about increasing the amount of esercise and stopping smoking!

 

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- But there are many chronic diseases which are not curable!

- And people suffer a lot and continuously!

- And they keep feeling pain and suffering!

- And it also means difficulties for the people who live with others who have chronic diseases!

 

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Losing your gall bladder due to gall stones after gastric bypass is almost a given.

Getting divorced is not listed but is also an almost given as well because the loss of weight is so mind altering that it becomes untenable to remain married.

 

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-obesity-surgery-relationships-idUSKCN1HA2G6

(Reuters Health) - Weight loss surgery can affect interpersonal relationships, a Swedish report suggests.

Researchers found that compared to people who didn’t have so-called bariatric surgery, those who did were more likely to become separated or divorced, if they were married, and more likely to get into a new relationship or get married, if they had been single.

The effects of weight-loss surgery extend beyond just losing pounds or kilos, coauthor Per-Arne Svensson of Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg told Reuters Health by phone.

Svensson’s team looked at data from two large studies of people who did or did not have weight-loss operations. Seventy to 75 percent of participants were women.

The first study compared 1,958 obese patients who had bariatric surgery with 1,912 who did not.

Overall, 999 participants were single at the start. In this group, four years later, nearly 21 percent of those who had surgery had gotten married or started a new relationship, compared with roughly 11 percent of those who didn’t have surgery. Ten years later, rates of marriage or new relationships were nearly 35 percent in the surgery group and 19 percent in the no-surgery group.

Among patients who were married to start with, however, the rate of divorce or separation after four years was about 9 percent in the surgery group compared with 6 percent in the control group. After 10 years, it was about 17 percent in the surgery group and about 12 percent in the other group.

The second study compared 29,234 obese individuals who had weight loss surgery and 283,748 individuals in the general population. The unmarried people who had weight-loss surgery were 35 percent more likely to get married, and surgery patients who were married were 41 percent more likely to get divorced, compared to people in the general population.

“Within the surgery groups, changes in relationship status were more common in those with larger weight loss,” the authors reported in JAMA Surgery.

Weight loss surgeries result “in a re-calibration of relationships, with patients realizing that they can indeed get out of unhappy relationships and/or initiate new healthy ones,” Dr. Samer Mattar, President of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery and Medical Director, Swedish Weight Loss Services in Seattle, Washington, told Reuters Health by email. He was not involved in the study.

 

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In both studies, everyone lived in Sweden. “It is unknown if the results can be generalized to other countries and cultures,” the authors acknowledged.

Another limitation of the new analysis is that it can’t prove that weight loss surgery causes relationships to change. The increased incidence of such changes after bariatric surgery might be associated with increased tension in already vulnerable relationships or to improvements that empower patients to leave unhealthy relationships, the study authors suggest.

They also note that although most post-bariatric surgery patients and their partners report an overall maintained or increased quality in the relationship, partners of patients who have undergone bariatric surgery sometimes report feeling jealous or no longer needed.

“Bariatric surgery magnifies and clarifies the pros and cons of relationships,” said Mattar. Patients should be aware, he said, that the surgery will improve their health and quality of life, including their ability to independently and confidently make personal decisions.

Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for obesity that has become increasingly popular. In 2016, surgeons performed 216,000 of these procedures in the U.S. alone, including gastric bypass, gastric banding, and sleeve gastrectomy. While all surgeries carry risks, evidence shows that the risks of morbid obesity outweigh the risks of bariatric surgery, according to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

 

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John 5: Jesus said to him: “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”And the man immediately got well, and he picked up his mat and began to walk.

- Jesus did many miracles!

- Every time he was precise!

- He knew exactly what he was doing!

- He is a perfectionist!

- He has learned everything from his Father!

- Through a deep collaboration!

- His teachings and his actions are perfect!

- Everything at the right time!

- And he shows us the way!

- But it will never be man’s way!

- Only God’s way!

- And he told us that God’s word was going to be corrupted!

- And we can trace this corruption since the beginning!

- The devil told Adam and Eve that they would not die but they died!

- And the Israelites went after other gods!

- And they mixed God’s word with man’s word!

- And through man’s history, man has been doing the same mixing God’s word with man’s word!

- It is so different from “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”

- Maybe it is too simple so man prefers man’s corrupted word!

 

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Genesis 2:1-3:Thus the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed. And by the seventh day, God had completed the work that he had been doing, and he began to rest on the seventh day from all his work that he had been doing. And God went on to bless the seventh day and to declare it sacred, for on it God has been resting from all the work that he has created, all that he purposed to make.

 

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http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1010-99192017000300007



Creation rest: Genesis 2:1-3 and the first creation account

ABSTRACT

In this article, the nature of God's rest in the first creation account is examined by describing what "rest" entailed for God. It is suggested that God's notion "rest" emerges from the creational activity of the first six days, that it continues into the present time, and that it serves as a counterpoint to the notions of rest presented by other cultures of the ANE. It is also argued that, while God rested on the seventh day, humanity was busy with its appointed tasks of subduing the earth, exercising dominion, and expanding the borders of the garden as they multiply and fill the earth.

Keywords: Rest; Creation; First Creation Account; Image of God

 

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B GOD'S REST IN THE FIRST CREATION ACCOUNT

The seventh day of creation and the close of the first creation account are described in Gen 2:1-3:1

1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.​

Genesis 2:1-3 serves as a conclusion to the first creation account. The first verse acts as a summary statement to the account of the creative activity that God accomplishes in Gen 1:1-31, while 2:2-3 describes the rest that is the result of that completed activity.2

In contrast to the first six days, which are filled with creative activity, the seventh day is marked by its absence. This transition is made distinct in the Hebrew text of 2:1 by the wayyiqtol, marking it as the introduction to a concluding statement.3 Used 206 times in the HB, means, intransitively (in the qal), "be complete, be finished, be destroyed, be consumed, be weak, be deter -mined."4 Similarly, in the piel it carries the transitive nuance of "complete" or "end." The pual form, as used here, carries a similar, passive sense: 'be finished," 'be ended," or be completed."5 The LXX renders it with συνετελέσθησαν, which also means "to finish off or "to be accomplished."6This notion of "completing" or "finishing" can be understood in one of two senses: firstly, various pieces are continually added together until fullness is achieved and an activity is stopped. For example, one can pour water into a glass until it is full. When the glass is full (i.e., fullness is achieved), one ceases to pour because the intent to fill the glass with water has been completed. The second sense involves the removal of parts from a whole until nothing remains. To return to the example of the glass of water: a glass of water can be emptied by drinking from it. One ceases to drink from the glass when there is nothing left in it. Completion of intent is the trigger for cessation in both cases. This suggests that the sense of should not be restricted to the simple cessation of activity; it should also be bound to the completion of intent.7 Genesis 2:1 reflects the first sense of . The realm of embodied existence has been completed, and everything placed in that realm has filled it up - not in the sense of an exhaustion of space, but rather that everything God intended to create has been created. His creational intent has been fulfilled, and he therefore stops creating new things. Coupled with the use of the wayyiqtol form mentioned above, rfo indicates that this verse (a) draws to a conclusion the creative acts of God described so far and (b) serves as a transition to vv. 2-3, which more fully describe the resultant state of affairs at the close of the first creation account.

 

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The second half of the verse tells us what has been completed: "The heavens and the earth and all their multitude." The waw serves to join and in a nominal hendiadys. Together they describe the overall environment in which the other creatures carry out their existence. It is the same construction found in Gen 1:1; its use here echoes the same concept and serves as an inclusio. 'The heavens and the earth" do es not simply refer to the sky (created on the second day) and the earth (created on the third day) - the point is not to describe specific aspects of the environment; it is a shorthand for the cosmic environment.8

In addition to the cosmic environment, the things that fill the environment have been completed.9 Syntactically, the use of the 3mp suffix ("their") in refers to as its antecedent. Here, describes the "host" of creation,10 or the "multitude" that filled the created order. Put in another way, it is a descriptor for all of created things residing in "the heavens and the earth11 The noun phrase in which it is found begins with a waw that coordinates the two aspects of creation: the environment of the created order and the material substance inhabiting that environment. What exactly, then, has been completed? The entire actualized order - both the environment and the things that fill it. One short verse summarizes the creative activity of Gen 1 and lays the foundation for the uniqueness of the seventh day.

A textual variant of Gen 2:2 reads ("and God finished on the sixth day") rather than ("and God finished on the seventh day"). The Samaritan Pentateuch, the Syriac, and the LXX support the alternate reading. The most plausible reason for this emendation is a desire to present God as engaged in nothing but rest on the seventh day.12 The implication is that if God does anything on the seventh day, then it is not properly a day of rest. The emendation, however, is not necessary. Several alternative possibilities present themselves: firstly, it is possible to translate with a pluperfect: "And God had finished on the seventh day ..." Completed action is signified by the same verb, which is also used in Gen 17:22, 49:33, and Exod 40:33; a similar situation can be understood here.13 Secondly, the verbs in 2:1-3 denote mental activity: "were finished" (2:1), "finished," "rest -ed" (2:2), ""blessed," and "made holy" (3:3). This is not the same kind of creative activity that marks the first six days (e.g., "making" and "creating"). Far from being actions of work, they are activities of "enjoyment, approval, and delight."14 Thirdly, the statement may be a declarative. Chapter 1 has already seen God declare various aspects of his work "good" and "very good." Now, as he inspects the completed product of his handiwork, he decides that it is complete.15

 

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In some incidences is used with the clear idea of cessation. Joshua 5:12 is typical of these. When the Israelites enter the Promised Land, we read, "And the manna ceased the day after they ate the produce of the Land." Simi -larly, other passages use in the hiphil with God as the subject. Ezekiel 12:23 depicts YHWH taking action in response to a proverb that has become popular amongst the exiles: "Tell them therefore, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.'" Other passages using do not make the notion of cessation explicit, yet the idea underlies the thought nonetheless. When Josiah reforms temple worship after finding the book of the covenant, we find that "... he deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah ..." (2 Kgs 23:5). The underlying idea is that the priests who were leading the people astray were forced to cease their ministry.

The overall usage of makes a number of things clear. Firstly, as many commentators note, the primary idea behind is to "cease" or "put an end to."19 Secondly, the notion of "e an activity has been stopped. More importantly, the rest obtained is not rest in a general sense, as it might be commonly understood in twenty-first-century popular culture; it is not the absence of all activity for the purpose of leisure. It is rest frest" should not be divorced from the idea of "ceasing." Rest begins becausrom a particular activity previously engaged in. Finally, the use of indicates that God did not rest because he was weary. He completed everything that he intended to create and was satisfied with the results. There was, therefore, no need to continue with the activity previously underway. The issue is one of completion, not weariness. Moreover, God did not cease all activity on the seventh day. His rule over creation and his involvement in the events of creation continue unabated.20

We have already examined one way in which the seventh day was differentiated from the other six days of the creation week: it is the day that God ceased his creative activity. There are, however, two other ways in which God marks this day as unique: (a) he blesses it and (b) he sets it apart The two verbs describe the events that follow God's act of cessation. At the same time, they serve to describe the situation more fully as it stood after his creative activity was brought to an end.

 

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There are two aspects associated with blessing in this context. The first is a "statement of relationship" that is made by the one who blesses. The second is a description of the benefits conveyed with the blessing. When God blesses, he does so with an attendant benefit that marks the special relationship between him and the thing that is being blessed.21 When used in the piel (as in this verse), " can have "various shades of meaning."22 However, in the piel, it is used primarily with the meaning "to bless." In the context of the OT, with God as the subject, to bless means "to endue with power for success, prosperi -ty, fecundity, longevity, etc."23 or to "endue someone with special power."24The implication is that someone or something is blessed for the purpose of fulfilling a particular function. After seeing that the sea creatures and birds are "good," God blesses them (1:22) for the purpose of being fruitful and multiplying. Similarly, God blesses the man and woman in 1:28. Like the blessing of the fifth day, this blessing is also for the purpose of being fruitful and multiplying. However, there is another purpose to this blessing: humanity is expected to subdue the earth and exercise dominion over the other living creatures.25 In both instances, the blessing that is given is tied to the function that the one blessed is intended to perform, and both are statements of relationship between God and his creatures.26 By blessing the seventh day, God marks the unique relationship that he has with it by allowing it to function in a way that the other days did not. The first six days are days of labor; the seventh day is differentiated as God's unique rest day.

In the piel can mean to "consecrate," "set apart," or "declare holy."27 The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew goes so far as to say "make invio -lable" when God is the subject.28 In other words, when someone or something is consecrated or set apart, it is not simply a declaration with no practical implication.29 The underlying idea is positional or relational: a particular relationship is formed with the object of the verb.30 The consecrated object has been moved into the sphere of the divine and, consequently, can no longer belong to the sphere of the common or ordinary.31 In Exod 13:2, for example, we find: "Consecrate piel imperative] to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine." The result of "consecration" is the formation of a unique rela -tionship between the firstborn and God. The firstborn of Israel belong to him in a relationship that is unique and not shared by the rest of the people of Israel. In Gen 2:3, God marks the seventh day as something that bears a unique relationship to himself and is therefore distinct from the days that have gone before. The day belongs to him as an exclusive possession. The reason why God formed this unique relationship with this particular time period is then explained in the latter half of the verse.

 

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A number of conclusions concerning God's rest can be taken from this analysis. Firstly, both the creatures and the environment in which they carry out their existence had been completed by the close of the sixth day. Secondly, God created everything that he intended to create. Once his creational intention was fulfilled, he ceased creating. We can understand this cessation of work as "rest," as long as it is not abstracted from his work that was previously under -way. Furthermore, God's rest is not rest from all work, but rest from the particular work of creation. Finally, because God rested on the seventh day, he has set it apart as something that belongs uniquely to himself and has thus empowered it to function as the day on which his rest can occur.

 

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John 5: But he answered them: “My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working.”

- When we look at the universe, “rest” doesn’t mean anything!

- Everything is always in movement!

- Constantly renewing itself!

- There is continuity!

- Thus “God has kept working until now”!

- God doesn’t need to eat or to drink or to sleep!

- And Jesus does the same, he keeps working!

- Once again we must be careful to a translation because it may not mean what we are used to!

- And here I am not speaking about the corruption of God’s word through man’s word or tradition!

 

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John 5: This is why the Jews began seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath but he was also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

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isos (Key) = adjective

Probably from εἴδω (G1492) (through the idea of seeming)

equal, in quantity or quality

ἴσος ísos, ee'-sos; probably from G1492 (through the idea of seeming); similar (in amount and kind):—+ agree, as much, equal, like.

- Jesus speaks about God as his Father!

- It tells about a strong relationship between God and Jesus, between Father and son!

- They are equal and of the same nature!

- Jesus comes from Heaven!

 

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John 5: Therefore, in response Jesus said to them: “Most truly I say to you, the Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things that One does, these things the Son does also in like manner.

- When we think about a father and his son, when the son is young, he tries to copy his father and gradually he wants to become independent and act as it pleases himself!

- It is completely different from the relationship between God and Jesus because Jesus doesn’t want to become independent, he wants to do like his Father in like manner!

- They have spent so much time together!

- They have made so many things together!

- He has sent his son to the earth to die for men!

- he will come back on earth to make his Father’s will!

- Thus it is difficult for men to understand such a deep relationship!

- With men, nothing lasts!

- Usually fathers and sons have difficulties to understand each other!

 

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John 5: For the Father has affection for the Son and shows him all the things he himself does, and he will show him works greater than these, so that you may marvel. For just as the Father raises the dead up and makes them alive, so the Son also makes alive whomever he wants to. For the Father judges no one at all, but he has entrusted all the judging to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

- definition of affection: a feeling of liking and caring for someone or something : tender attachment : fondness She had a deep affection for her parents.

- God and Jesus care for each other!

- “God shows the Son all the things he himself does”!

- Here again there is a big difference because the Father shows the son ALL the things he himself does!

- It is so different from a normal father son relationship that people can’t understand it!

- Probably because men are used to make gods at their own image like the ancient Greek!

- But this is no Greek philosophy!

- It goes far beyond basic human philosophy!

 

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John 5: Most truly I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes the One who sent me has everlasting life, and he does not come into judgment but has passed over from death to life.

- First we need to hear Jesus’ word!

- Then we must believe the one who sent Jesus!

- Then we can get everlasting life!

- We can speak about a summary!

G191
akouō (Key)
to be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf
to hear

to attend to, consider what is or has been said

to understand, perceive the sense of what is said

to hear something

to perceive by the ear what is announced in one's presence

to get by hearing learn

a thing comes to one's ears, to find out, learn


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pisteuō (Key)
to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in
of the thing believed

to credit, have confidence

in a moral or religious reference

used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul

to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith

mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith

to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity

to be entrusted with a thing

- IT MEANS FAR MORE THAN JUST ONE WORD!

 

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John 5: “Most truly I say to you, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who have paid attention will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted also to the Son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to do judging, because he is the Son of man. Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, and those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.

- Hear!

- Pay attention!

- God has given Jesus authority to do judging!