Complications

Mar 07, 2010

  About the middle of February I started to have trouble getting things to go through my pouch.  At first I hoped it was just the things I was eating but it kept happening...that stuck feeling...I would let it work it's way through for at least an hour but then ended up throwing it up.  After about a week of some good and some really bad days I called the surgeons office.  They suggested I either do a swallow study or go right in for an Upper GI.  I went the swallow study route hoping that it was nothing.  Unfortunately, it was a stricture.  They sent the orders to the Endoscopy Center with a list of preferred docs, which of course I couldn't get in with any of them right away, so I chose the one who could do it the soonest, considering I was back on liquid diet since it was the only thing that went down.
  I went to my Upper GI on a Thursday afternoon, I can remember the whole procedure.  It wasn't too bad even though being conscience through it.  After they brought me to recovery and I started to have really bad pain in my shoulder and abdomen.  They hurry and discharged me and sent me and my husband to the nearest E.R., Which was Unity, thankfully! 
  They did an x-ray and found air in my chest cavity and abdomen, which meant they had punctured my pouch.  I was so disappointed.  I have become so protective of my little pouch.  Luckily, Dr. Baker was there and he decided to do surgery.  I was in my room by 11:00p.m. on Thursday night.  He had told me that he could probably do the surgery laporscopically but it would be better to open me up.  I knew that I would much rather recover from the one incision than to recover from that and laporscopic surgery also. 
  I had great pain control in the hospital.  The nurses were great and everyone took great care of me.  I had a pic line inserted and was pumped full of good stuff and antibiotics.  I felt like a new person when I left there on Sunday. 
  I'm glad to report that it appears that my stricture is gone, for now.  Hopefully it will not return or I will be one scared momma.  I think my kids and husband are ready for me to start feeling better.  I am too.
 

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North Branch, MN
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01/06/2010
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Jun 08, 2009
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