I'm Home!!! AGAIN!
Hello all my beautiful Marchers!!!! 
I am SOOOO glad to be back!!!! I had a rough little bit there but I'm back and kickin' now. Well, maybe not kicking, but close enough!!! 
I had my RnY surgery last Thursday (3/11). I wasn't feeling the greatest when I came home Sunday but just figured it would take me a bit of time to get back up to speed a bit. So we came home and I played with my babies and enjoyed spending time with them. But then I couldn't keep anything down. I could drink a little but it never felt like it was going anywhere and then it would eventually come back up. Even after I threw up though I still felt like I had all this "stuff" just sitting there. I didn't sleep all night. Couldn't sleep laying down and couldn't sleep sitting up or anything. Then about 3 that morning I had a little heart flutter. I have them once in awhile so I wasn't too worried about that. But then as the night progressed I started having more and more of them. I was trying to wait until my Dr.'s office opened at 8 but finally decided I couldn't. My heart was doing frequent tap dances in my chest, I couldn't breathe, couldn't drink and had started feeling that panicky "Oh My God I'm Going to Die" feeling. I called and had them page my Dr. about 7:30. Except the guy at the answering service said "this can't wait until they open in 30 minutes?". I said NO, it can't, I need to talk to him like an hour ago. Anyway, I don't think he ever paged him because my Dr. is really good about calling us quickly and he never called. So I called the office at 8:02 and told his nurse what was going on and he called me back in like less than 2 minutes.
I told him what was going on and by the time I got done I was just bawling and saying "Doc, I don't know what is wrong but I just DON'T feel RIGHT, I feel like I'm going to die". He tried to reassure me and told me that since I didn't have a fever he didn't think it was a leak. He thought I had an obstruction somewhere and they could probably scope me down my throat and fix it. He thought I probably had some residual swelling maybe and that he just needed to go in and stretch things a little. But said that I needed to come there because he wanted me on IV's so I didn't get dehydrated and he wanted to run tests and so off we went.
We got to the hospital about noon (I had to make arrangements for my babies to go with my mom, get my hubby home and then get us 2 hours to the hospital) and they started my IV and bolused 2 bags of IV fluids in really quickly. They drew blood and then took me to have an upper GI test done where you have to swallow this white barium stuff. It tasted much better than the stuff I had to drink for the leak study test. The cool part about this was that I got to see my pouch! Cool!!! I watched the stuff go down my throat, into my pouch, out my pouch and then about 3 cm down my small intestine it just stopped. The Dr. doing the GI test explained everything to me very nicely and told me what they were going to have to do to fix it. Of course when he said they would have to scope me I was thinking the down the throat thing like the Dr. had talked about earlier with me. Well, when the Dr. came back up to talk to me he told me that they were going to have to put me out and open me back up. He said that the good thing was that since I was so recent from my first surgery that they wouldn't have to cut any more openings, they could just push through four of my six that were already there. He also told me he was going to have them sedate me before they put me out and have me swallow a tube so they could suction out some of the stuff that was crammed in there. He said the good thing was that I was fairly certain not to have to worry about a leak because I had already proven that it was going to stand up to the test from all that was down there. THEN he tells me that he's supposed to be getting on a plane in a couple of hours and won't be able to do my surgery, but his partner was going to do it and she's been doing these longer then he has so I would be in good hands.
SO, Monday evening about 6:30 they took me down the preop to get me ready for surgery and suction some of the junk out of my esophagus and pouch. They suctioned out 250 cc's worth of junk. After I came out of surgery and came out of the anesthesia they told me that even with all the stuff they got out, when they intubated me a lot of stuff still came up and got all over my face and in my hair. THANK GOD, I did not aspirate any of it so didn't have any in my lungs. They were able to get everything suctioned out of my mouth before I aspirated it. Bless them! That could have meant a lot more complications if that would have happened. As it was, all the gastric juices that were stopped up in there that came up burned the inside of my mouth, my lips, cheeks and forehead and I had a big mat of it in my hair (that was nasty!). I have been swabbing the inside of my mouth several times a day with mylanta and putting it on my lips like chapstick. That has helped a lot. You can't really tell on my face other than it feels really dry to the touch. I put lotion on a lot and hopefully it will recover back to the way it used to be. Then since I had 2 surgeries in 5 days, it took much longer for my bladder and bowels to wake up so I had to have several suppositories and an enema before I could finally move my bowels and it was Tuesday night before I could finally pee on my own. Everything is working now as it should be though and life is grand again.
I started my full liquids today! Never thought the few additions to my diet would seem so wonderful!!! I was so sick of jello and broth!!!!!!!! 
I am back on track and home again. A little more sore this time and a lot more tired, but I'm doing my walking and keeping things down. I just came home yesterday and this is the first I have felt even remotely up to getting on here to post to all of you. The cool thing was that I went I gained even more weight the second time around from all the fluids and I'm still down 5 pounds from my surgery day weight! How COOL is that???!!!!
Thank you all for all of your prayers. I could feel them!!! God Bless you all and everyone is in my prayers. I'm going to go to bed now and I will do a little catching up tomorrow. I LOVE YOU ALL!!! THANK YOU!!!
Carrie Carrie Quite Contrary 
(a/k/a CCQC)
7 days post op (3/11) - 5 pounds down
March Elevener and PROUD to be a Marcher in Newpouch, USA 
Offishal Assistant Paper Monkey and Secretary Extaordinaire 
AND Offishal Keeper of the Marcher Title Duty Roster
My Angel ==> Amber W. 
My Angelettes ==> Joann B. , LaDonna D. , Marcie F.
I am SOOOO glad to be back!!!! I had a rough little bit there but I'm back and kickin' now. Well, maybe not kicking, but close enough!!! I had my RnY surgery last Thursday (3/11). I wasn't feeling the greatest when I came home Sunday but just figured it would take me a bit of time to get back up to speed a bit. So we came home and I played with my babies and enjoyed spending time with them. But then I couldn't keep anything down. I could drink a little but it never felt like it was going anywhere and then it would eventually come back up. Even after I threw up though I still felt like I had all this "stuff" just sitting there. I didn't sleep all night. Couldn't sleep laying down and couldn't sleep sitting up or anything. Then about 3 that morning I had a little heart flutter. I have them once in awhile so I wasn't too worried about that. But then as the night progressed I started having more and more of them. I was trying to wait until my Dr.'s office opened at 8 but finally decided I couldn't. My heart was doing frequent tap dances in my chest, I couldn't breathe, couldn't drink and had started feeling that panicky "Oh My God I'm Going to Die" feeling. I called and had them page my Dr. about 7:30. Except the guy at the answering service said "this can't wait until they open in 30 minutes?". I said NO, it can't, I need to talk to him like an hour ago. Anyway, I don't think he ever paged him because my Dr. is really good about calling us quickly and he never called. So I called the office at 8:02 and told his nurse what was going on and he called me back in like less than 2 minutes.
I told him what was going on and by the time I got done I was just bawling and saying "Doc, I don't know what is wrong but I just DON'T feel RIGHT, I feel like I'm going to die". He tried to reassure me and told me that since I didn't have a fever he didn't think it was a leak. He thought I had an obstruction somewhere and they could probably scope me down my throat and fix it. He thought I probably had some residual swelling maybe and that he just needed to go in and stretch things a little. But said that I needed to come there because he wanted me on IV's so I didn't get dehydrated and he wanted to run tests and so off we went.
We got to the hospital about noon (I had to make arrangements for my babies to go with my mom, get my hubby home and then get us 2 hours to the hospital) and they started my IV and bolused 2 bags of IV fluids in really quickly. They drew blood and then took me to have an upper GI test done where you have to swallow this white barium stuff. It tasted much better than the stuff I had to drink for the leak study test. The cool part about this was that I got to see my pouch! Cool!!! I watched the stuff go down my throat, into my pouch, out my pouch and then about 3 cm down my small intestine it just stopped. The Dr. doing the GI test explained everything to me very nicely and told me what they were going to have to do to fix it. Of course when he said they would have to scope me I was thinking the down the throat thing like the Dr. had talked about earlier with me. Well, when the Dr. came back up to talk to me he told me that they were going to have to put me out and open me back up. He said that the good thing was that since I was so recent from my first surgery that they wouldn't have to cut any more openings, they could just push through four of my six that were already there. He also told me he was going to have them sedate me before they put me out and have me swallow a tube so they could suction out some of the stuff that was crammed in there. He said the good thing was that I was fairly certain not to have to worry about a leak because I had already proven that it was going to stand up to the test from all that was down there. THEN he tells me that he's supposed to be getting on a plane in a couple of hours and won't be able to do my surgery, but his partner was going to do it and she's been doing these longer then he has so I would be in good hands.
SO, Monday evening about 6:30 they took me down the preop to get me ready for surgery and suction some of the junk out of my esophagus and pouch. They suctioned out 250 cc's worth of junk. After I came out of surgery and came out of the anesthesia they told me that even with all the stuff they got out, when they intubated me a lot of stuff still came up and got all over my face and in my hair. THANK GOD, I did not aspirate any of it so didn't have any in my lungs. They were able to get everything suctioned out of my mouth before I aspirated it. Bless them! That could have meant a lot more complications if that would have happened. As it was, all the gastric juices that were stopped up in there that came up burned the inside of my mouth, my lips, cheeks and forehead and I had a big mat of it in my hair (that was nasty!). I have been swabbing the inside of my mouth several times a day with mylanta and putting it on my lips like chapstick. That has helped a lot. You can't really tell on my face other than it feels really dry to the touch. I put lotion on a lot and hopefully it will recover back to the way it used to be. Then since I had 2 surgeries in 5 days, it took much longer for my bladder and bowels to wake up so I had to have several suppositories and an enema before I could finally move my bowels and it was Tuesday night before I could finally pee on my own. Everything is working now as it should be though and life is grand again.
I started my full liquids today! Never thought the few additions to my diet would seem so wonderful!!! I was so sick of jello and broth!!!!!!!! I am back on track and home again. A little more sore this time and a lot more tired, but I'm doing my walking and keeping things down. I just came home yesterday and this is the first I have felt even remotely up to getting on here to post to all of you. The cool thing was that I went I gained even more weight the second time around from all the fluids and I'm still down 5 pounds from my surgery day weight! How COOL is that???!!!!
Thank you all for all of your prayers. I could feel them!!! God Bless you all and everyone is in my prayers. I'm going to go to bed now and I will do a little catching up tomorrow. I LOVE YOU ALL!!! THANK YOU!!!
Carrie Carrie Quite Contrary (a/k/a CCQC)
7 days post op (3/11) - 5 pounds down
March Elevener and PROUD to be a Marcher in Newpouch, USA
Offishal Assistant Paper Monkey and Secretary Extaordinaire AND Offishal Keeper of the Marcher Title Duty Roster
My Angel ==> Amber W.
My Angelettes ==> Joann B. , LaDonna D. , Marcie F. Hi everyone!
Just one more thing that I wanted to be sure to say that I didn't put in there. But I feel it's important, especially for those whose surgeries are coming up.
Even with the complications and the second surgery, I have NEVER regretted having this surgery. Even when I was contemplating something deadly going on with me before I knew what was happening, I never once thought "why did I do this, I should have just left it alone". I never doubted my decision to have this done. I knew that this was the right thing for me to do and I held to that through this whole last week. I was scared a lot through this and I was afraid of dying and leaving my babies, but I knew that even then, I would still have made the same choice because my ultimate goal was still the same. I was dying fat. Now I have a chance to have a GOOD life and have fun with my babies.
I just wanted everyone to know that.
Carrie
Lori and Va (In serious prayer now) 
I want to thank you our precious God in heaven 
for keeping our sweet friend Carrie 
here with us. Carrie as always you know you are a very good friend and I for one am glad you made it through this.
I weighed today and I am down 6 lbs. I am so happy to even lose that much. I am praying to lose more before I see the Dr. on Monday. Thanks for all you support you did for me Carrie. Praying for you always Carrie Sarah T 
for keeping our sweet friend Carrie here with us. Carrie as always you know you are a very good friend and I for one am glad you made it through this. I weighed today and I am down 6 lbs. I am so happy to even lose that much. I am praying to lose more before I see the Dr. on Monday. Thanks for all you support you did for me Carrie. Praying for you always Carrie Sarah T 
Wow, CCQC - what a horrible time! Thank God it's straightened out now. But OMG, I'm just amazed at what CAN and DID happen. We've been praying so hard for you...it obviously has worked.
You take care of yourself...I'm still praying.
Kimmer
Queen of the Niners, Instigator to All Marchers, High Priestess of Giggles
Thank God you are OK! You are a tough woman to go through 2 surgeries and be up and at em!
I'm curious, what was wrong? It sounds like it was past the stoma. What did they do in the second surgery? Inquiring minds want to know... 
So happy that you are doing well! 
We missed you!
Joy
-20 lbs / 18 days
So happy that you are doing well!
We missed you!
Joy
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