And poof, it was gone. My band that is.

Feb 20, 2014

My band is gone. I'm scared, but knowing what was happening to my body from it is really frightening.

I hadn't been feeling well for 10 days. I went to the ER and by the symptoms that thought is was mu gallbladder. I was admitted and surgery scheduled for the same evening. The surgeon that was able to to my surgery also practices bariatrics. We briefly spoke in pre-OR. My labs led him to believe there was more than just my gallbladder infected.

Surgery was to be 1.5 hours. They awakened me 4.5 hours later.

When the surgeon scoped my stomach he could see that a lot of the band had eroded Into the stomach. From outside the stomach, he started cleaning off the abscess that had form, with gunk trailing down the fill line, heading for the port. Once he cleared some of it, he discovered a once inch hold in the stomach, which was by then flowing abscess and infection through the abdominal cavity. Thru the lap incisions, they had clean and flush.

So now here I am, in the hospital, day 4 of a probable 7.

There are already millions of bacteria in the abdominal cavity, and now all of the infection caused from the eroded lap bans. Treatment plan is currently IV antibiotics lots of them to hit all the major strains. Labs show it is a strep. No food or drink until tests show the stomach is healed not leaking, which could be a few more days.

I'm allowed ice chips, as few as possible. Once discharged from the hospital I will be self administering IV antibiotics for the next 8 weeks!!

I had always been the once to be positive about the band, it worked well for me with a total weight loss of 140 pounds.

So not sure what to do next. I'm pretty used to how I've been eating to be at the weight I am, and hopefully won't need any other WL surgery. Time and effort will tell.

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