My maternal grandmother desperately needed a hip replacement but her orthopedic surgeon told her that the extra weight she was carrying put her under too great risk of getting a pulmonary embolism.
We all helped her to lose the weight by encouraging and supporting her. She was still just a bit too heavy for the surgeon to be totally happy but by now the femoral head on her right side had virtually disappeared and so reluctantly he agreed to operate.
She died post op from a pulmonary embolism.
she was 68 and we all thought she’d live forever.
Operating on overweight people carries a lot of risks.