Mary C.
20 Months post - op
Jan 22, 2010
It's been so long since I posted here. Not because everything has been peachy keen though. 80% of this last year - I have felt AWESOME and life has been great. But - there was a period of time last summer - beginning around mid July that I began to feel unwell. My weight had settled out at about 180lbs. I was feeling good and all was well. I developed SEVERE intermittant colicky abdominal pain - unlike anything I had ever had before. At first I attributed it to constipation - but - I was still having regular normal BM's. It was intermittant - when I was having the episodes of pain - which lasted anywhere from 1-6 to 8 hrs - I was unable to eat - had such a bloated feeling in my upper abdomen- more to the left. I was never nauseated and did not vomit at any point. When the pain settled - I could eat as per normal - no problem. I began to document and keep track of what I ate and how I felt and how long the pain lasted and how bad each episode was. Because - deep down - I KNEW this was not good. I turned to my peeps on OH - posting on both the New Brunswick forum and the main RNY forum about what was going on with me. Someone mentioned Petersen's Hernia to me. I researched it - and with a very sinking feeling - just knew that's what I had. The signs and symptoms were all there. But - as it was intermittant - I still hoped beyond hope that it would go away and never some back. About 2 and a half weeks after the first episode - I had an episode that was the worst yet - lasting 10hrs - pain scale 10 out of 10 - and I prayed to god to let the pain subside enough for me to get in the car so my husband could get me to the hospital. And I am not a religious person - and it's the first time on my life I actually prayed for anything. Around 6am - I managed to get myself in the car - and DH took me to my local ER - where I also work. Let me just say that nurses make the WORST patients. MY co-workers have since told me that the only way they knew it was me - was because they recognized DH. I was that sick. I ended up being admitted under the care of a surgeon I trust implicitly - with a diagnosis of sub acute bowel obstruction. I was extrememly dehydrated, had a urinary tract infection and was in for 2 days. Had x-rays only. No CT scan. I did improve somewhat - of course I did - I didn't have anything to eat or drink - only IV fluid - and I was getting pain meds. I went home on a Thursday. Around noon - still uncomfortable - but much improved. Pain maybe 2-3 out of 10. I started to gradually eat a bit - full fluids - to mushy food such as oatmeal etc - but by Thurday night - knew it wasn't going as it should. Friday morning same feeling that this wasn't going away - it was coming back. Had my trusted surgeon been on call at my local Hospital - I would have went back. But he wasn't - and I was terrified that I would end up on the operating table - cut open by some surgeon who had never seen an RNY re-arranged tummy before. I wasn't going to take that chance. So - I booked a flight to Nova Scotia - had my Mom all set to pick me up at the airport and take me to George Dumont ER. Thankfully - my parents spend each summer in PEI - so they were there for me. How I made it to Sunday to get on that plane and fly to Halifax (90 mins) and get off under my own steam - I still don't know to this day. Fear I think - I just had this feeling I HAD to get to Moncton where Dr. B. was. Mom drove me to George Dumont.To be continued - gotta get to bed gotta work in the am
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About Me
Glovertown,
Location
28.0
BMI
Surgery
04/17/2008
Surgery Date
Jan 20, 2007
Member Since
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