tofarrell39
Hi everyone! I'm Trisha. I had my surgery 3/15/2015 and was 268 at SW and heaviest was 309. I went down to 200.2 but for some reason it scared me and i am now up to 220, sadly. I got off the bariatric journey when I did not deal with my anger. It start 4 hours after getting home from the hospital that my entire sleeve ripped open. i was rushed to ER by my friend where the staff treated me like i just over ate or something, needless to say i didnt. After 22 hours i was able to have another surgery that should have taken 2 hours and ended with 5 hours and 5 dr's. I had a drain tube down my nose, 3 drain tubes coming out of stomach, a sandollar size hematoma on my spleen and a pic line in my right arm, all after surgery. i had to be fed by an IV that made me a diabetic (never was one before) so then had to start getting insulin shots every 12 hours. This went on for 8 days and then i was released again from the hospital but didnt feel ready but my Dr had a vacation to Vietnam already planned and I couldn't be in the hospital while she left. So.. 4 days later could not breathe and rushed to the ER,again! My oxygen was 82% and my left lung was 80% full of fluids and not to mention my right wasn't nearly as bad but had fluids too. Now i get air lifed to another Hospital 3 hours away as i was turning Septic and no Dr in Central Oregon would take responsibility of me since my Surgeon was out of the country. Now the new hospital puts a chest tube in my back and has to pump it at first to start a suction...extreme pain!! Finally 5 days later i am ready to go home but still not out of the woods. My gracious mom pays for a stranger to stay with me for 7 days straight to help me take meds every 4 hours, eat, drink right amount of fluids every 4 hours, etc. It wasnt until about 3months later I finally felt better, but then my lung acted up and it has never healed to this day, 3 years later. i just have to work around the scar tissue and O2 gasps involuntary sometimes. I did hire an atty out of town and it was all going good until he disappeared and all my medical bills did too. The surgeon? She doesnt do Bariatric anymore..weird, right?
All of this while I was an employee at the hospital this happened at and still AM.
So now i just want my power back and refocus on my health after deep counseling but i forgot how to and I cant get nutrition visits anymore.
Thanks so reading and any ideas you can offer to refocus... I AM A SPONGE!! :) :)