WLS DAY!

May 22, 2011

Wow, have I been through some stuff.  Please excuse any misspelled words or incorrect phrases.  My brain is still a bit mushy.  I had my wls on Tuesday morning at 8am.  Surgery was fine and I was recopperating as suspected I would.  I was up moving, using bathroom all as I should have been.  Around 9 pm, I started having what I considered small spasms in my midsection.  Nothing too severe but def got my attention.  I asked the nurse to help me to bathroom and when I stood up I passed out.  Scared her very much and she called surgeon.  Dr A came back in to exam me and thought that I was having a leakage or a bleed somewhere in my abdominal cavity.  By midnight I was taken in and they did a open exploratory on me to rule out any serious issues.  When I woke, I was in ICU and it was after 6 am.  Thats right, out another 6 hours of anethesia.  They explained that usually in this sort of cause they would find the bleed, cut it off and all would be ok.  Not in my case.  When he got into me, I was seeping blood from everywhere, not one particular place.  For days, Wed-Sat , I was in ICU just doing a sorta waiting game.  No one could tell me exactly what was wrong other than I seemed to have a sort of bleeding disorder and they continued to give me pint after pint of blood and units of plasma and some clotting agent they had sent from St Louis to my more rural hospital.  I guess I do not coagulate like most people.  We still do not know the actual name of my condition, just that it exsists.  More tests are still pending.  I have a bright silver zipper from my diaphram to my belly button  Not too pretty, but Im alive.  I seriously didnt think I was going to make it.  Until Staurday we were doing a little "wait and see" dance to see if I needed to be airlifted to St Louis.  By the time I had a few tests run and it showed no further bleeding, I was sent to the regular bariatric floor where I had MUCH better service and help.  Also I was given a test to see how fast I would clot and some other tests for PE in my chest.  I am not on the mend, but of course I think it should be faster.  Thanks for any or all blessings.  Goodnight for now.

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