Had the Week From Hell

Feb 27, 2010

10 days ago severe abdominal pain came on from nowhere. I called the surgeon's office and headed to the ER. CT scan showed I had gallstones and something else on the scan "didn't look right," but they couldn't tell what it was.  Two days later I was in the hospital for a routine gallbladder removal that was supposed to be a 40 minute procedure.  Over two and a half hours later the surgeon finally spoke with my family.  My gallbladder pretty much fell apart when they touched it and I had a massive internal hernia at the connection of the Y-limb from the RNY.  Dr Pham said 3/4 of my bowel was chronically herniated. No wonder I've felt like shit for months!!!! My abdominal was also full of fluid when they got inside. Needless to say i wasn't going home that day. Not really sure what day everything happened on, but at one point I was passing out because my blood pressure was 80/30 from losing so much blood. I ended up in the ICU for constant monitoring after the nurses on the floor had called 5 rapid response codes on me in 2 days, enough is enough. I needed 4 blood transfusions and what felt like a million meds. 9 days later, here I am, finally home! I feel like I got hit my a truck, I have massive amounts of blood and fluid in my abdomen and a bruise the size of a melon on my abdomen from the collection of blood.  I can;t sleep because I am so uncomfortable but am in so much pain that all I want to do is sleep. Sigh.....

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