Update on surgery 4/28
So my surgery was Monday the 28th. Started around 945am - I was not brought back to my room until almost 8pm. 6 1/2 hours in surgery where they almost had to open me up due to scar tissue from my splenectomy in 2004. Scar tissue had spread around my stomach, liver & diaphragm. The dr had to actually remove part of my stomach! Then I wouldn't wake up. They had to put me on a ventilator and almost moved me to ICU. When I finally did wake up both hands were completely numb and swollen, the right hand swollen like a balloon around the IV. They called some ICU nurses down to put one in the crook of my right arm. I couldn't hold anything in my hands for 2 days. They are still tingly today! I also had a huge knot/ sore on the back of my head that made it painful to lay on. BUT I made it! Thank The Lord! Great care, great nurses. The barium liquid gave me a huge gas bubble and I remembered reading on here about getting rid of it by walking! So I insisted on walking and walking Tuesday night and finally was able to dislodge that bubble and spit out all that fluid. Since then have had no more gas, a little nausea from drinking too fast too much but that's it. My drain had to be changed 4-5x per day there was so much of that pink stuff coming out. I finally got that out today and will be released tomorrow. I'm exhausted most of the time, glad to be off the diladuid which made me zombie like! I'm getting my fluids in and learning to truly sip sip sip. I went into surgery at 280 down from HW of 299. They didn't weigh mr yet here but I'm glad since I'm still putting out all that fluid. Thank you everyone for the things I learned on here that have helped me make it through so far!
Glad you are okay! WELCOME TO THE LOSER'S BENCH! I will keep you in my prayers as you are recovering. keep walking and sipping. Get your protein and water in!
“Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”― Marc Hack
Ht:5'4 SW:268 CW:127.2 GW:125 RNY 06/09 Stomach/colon revision 11/13