Right? I shudder to think how much more difficult my abdominal surgery might have been if the docs had had to go through inches of fat to get to my stomach/intestines. I also shudder to think how I might not have survived if I was a fat. My husband told me a couple of years ago that when I came out of surgery, the docs told him that based on my blood gasses I'd had maybe four hours left before passing the point of no return, or at least very serious blood poisoning/peritonitis. Imagine if my body had been in terrible shape already thanks to fat choking my organs and filling my veins.