Complications week 47 post-op RNY!!!

Jun 13, 2011

Well Friday afternoon around 12:30 I was eating toast with peanut butter and all of a sudden I started getting real bad pain on the upper right hand side of my abdomen, then the pain started spreading through out my abdomen. My husband and I both thought that it might be just really bad gas but I wasn't getting bloated and wasn't passing any. The pain was getting so bad that it made me feel extremely nauseated and so we thought it might be my gallbladder going caput so I called my dr's office around 7pm and they wanted to call me an ambulance but I told them I had a ride and so we went to Sacred Heart Hospital where I sat in the emergency room for 2 + hours because everyone was thinking it was just my gallbladder... So when I finally got called back and they discovered that I was having pain all over my stomach and I was nauseated they opted to do a catscan instead of an ultrasound and discovered that I had an internal hernia and obstruction. They called my surgeon for my gastric bypass since he was the Dr. oncall at the time explained what was going on with me and the call happened to drop when they tried calling him back they couldn't get a hold of him again so they admitted me into the hospital and said I would be going into surgery to have it repaired some time later on Saturday what they didn't know was that Dr. Bright had hung up on them called the OR scheduled my surgery for 4 or 430 am and rushed to the hospital. So Tim and I are just getting comfy enough in my room to doze off when at 4 a nurse rushed into my room with transport telling me that Dr. Bright was performing surgery now! Thank goodness he did because my intestines were lodged under a band of scar tissue from a prior surgery and were twisting and folding in on themselves. Luckily he got in there in time because there was no tissue death yet and they didn't have to remove any of my intestines or worse. If I had waited any longer to be seen then I would have been in big big trouble. I was released yesterday just in time for Julianne's and Jen's high school graduation!!!

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