question: My mother has COPD but she also has gall stones in her Gallbladder and every doctor that we have talked to has said that it is impossiable to do the surgery to remove her gallbadder because she would be stuck on a ventrolator for the rest of her life and a feeding tube . Is this the only way is there some way they can help to save her life because right now she s beatheing on her own but she is very sick because of her gallbadder.