More Teens Getting Gastric Bypass Surgery
November 15, 2007
Jarvis Willis is 16 years old. He spends most of his time these days playing video games even though football is his passion. But at 320 pounds, he said his coach has thrown him off the team for being too fat to play. But that's not his only problem: His weight has given this teenager all sorts of illnesses that you typically see in people more than twice his age, such as severe diabetes and kidney failure. Jarvis admits that his eating habits along with failing to take his medicine has had dire effects on his health. is worried enough about his health to ask for an extreme form of help -- gastric bypass surgery. He underwent the surgery earlier this week at the Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. Jarvis said he hopes the surgery will change his life and that he may be able to play football again, or possibly try out for the basketball team. More >>
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