Question:
HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN LEAKAGE OCCURS WHEN YOU ARE HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL

   — [Anonymous] (posted on August 22, 2000)


August 22, 2000
I waited for someone else to answer this one first. My husband had a post-op leak. He came apart at the stoma-where the intestine connects to the pouch? Raging fever, mind-numbing pain, sensation of gas, but no "result", pale & clammy, and he felt like the water he drank "isn't going in my stomach" and INDEED, it was not. However, in 99% of the cases, this would happen before you got out of the hosptial! He was a very rare case! And they did reopen and repair him on Day 5 and he is FINE, FINE, FINE now.
   — vitalady




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