Deborah Finley, 50, of Lodi, Calif., says her weight started to worry her during the early days of COVID. That’s when she noticed a lot of the people who were on ventilators or dying had something in common: obesity.
“It was a scary time,” she says. As a single mom, she was afraid “that I wouldn’t be here for my daughter.”
Finley had been diagnosed with sleep apnea and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and she was prediabetic. Her pulmonologist suggested bariatric surgery but couldn’t get Finley’s insurer to cover it…