Question:
URGENT - Need info for friend scheduled for emergency revis.

A friend of mine is scheduled for an emergency revision in one week (9/15/00) due to a leak in her pouch and a resulting ulcer. She is getting very conflicting info from different doctors in the surgeon's practice, and is questioning having the revision done at all (which I can't think is a real option). If anyone has had this sort of revision done in the past 6 months to a year, specifically with Dr. Kane in Elk Grove Village, IL, please email me at the address below if you are willing to speak to her about what to expect. She does not have any sort of internet access, and would need to speak to someone on the phone. Her main concern is the doctor telling her she may possibly go home with a gastric tube (abdominal) for up to six weeks. My work email is [email protected] I work with her husband and we will pass on any phone number (yours or hers) as needed. Please help if you can - she is very worried and neither I nor her husband has the answers she needs right now.    — Kasey K. (posted on September 7, 2000)

September 7, 2000
Hello, I am sorry to hear of your friend's problem. I, too, had a leak that occurred about two weeks after my open RNY. However, I didn't have to have any type of revision, as my surgeon, Dr. Liu at UCLA, said the leak would heal itself. I was in the hopital again for almost a week and the pain was fairly annoying. I ended up with a drainage tube for almost a month, which was just a hassle, but not really painful. What type of WLS surgery did your friend have initially, adn when did she have her surgery? I am wondering why they are doing an entire revision?
   — Peggy G.