Iwata's surgery took a toll...

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Mr.GameCrazy on 06 November 2014

I didn't even notice. I hope he's feeling better.

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akuseru on 06 November 2014

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Yeah, surgery does that I guess. He's relatively luck though to be honest. He's required to take yearly medicals I believe as part of his position as president of Nintendo. If he wasn't, who knows may something like that could've gone unnoticed for years and become cancerous. So being president of Nintendo may have literally saved his life.

So at least there's that. Iwata has always looked younger than his actual age, now he's starting to look more his age. I'm sure he will regain weight as the months go on though.

Every company in Japan is obligated by law to arrange and pay for one full body medical examination per year for each of their workers. Being President might've sent him to a better clinic/hospital, but thats all the extras he gets.

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Soundwave on 06 November 2014

akuseru said:

Soundwave said:

Yeah, surgery does that I guess. He's relatively luck though to be honest. He's required to take yearly medicals I believe as part of his position as president of Nintendo. If he wasn't, who knows may something like that could've gone unnoticed for years and become cancerous. So being president of Nintendo may have literally saved his life.

So at least there's that. Iwata has always looked younger than his actual age, now he's starting to look more his age. I'm sure he will regain weight as the months go on though.

Every company in Japan is obligated by law to arrange and pay for one full body medical examination per year for each of their workers. Being President might've sent him to a better clinic/hospital, but thats all the extras he gets.

Whoa. Good on Japan.

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Hedra42 on 06 November 2014

Yeah, I noticed he'd lost weight. Looks like his hair has thinned, too. I hope he recovers well.

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hsrob on 06 November 2014

That is fairly standard for the sort of surgery he likely had (assuming a Whipple's procedure). It is a huge operation and involves removing the gall bladder, bile duct, pancreatic head, duodenum and part of the stomach as well.

Normal uncomplicated recovery (and i mean just from surgery to leaving hospital) for an otherwise healthy person is often 3-4 weeks, so you can imagine the sort of toll that it places on one's body. It would be unusual if he hadn't lost weight.