UGGGG ... I remember this day. This was NOT a good day.
At 2:00 AM, Friday, Dec. 20, I had to return to surgery due to a problem in my intestines/bowels. My "bowel" was compared to a kinked garden hose.
QUITE painful. (sigh*)
(Demerol is good.)
For Surgery #1 - I had the Roux en y gastric bypass and that surgery went alright. I had additional surgery at the same time as the gastric bypass to repair a hiatal hernia but this is very common. So common, in fact, that prior to each gastric bypass procedure each patient is required to sign a consent for hiatal hernia repair ... "just in case". I was the in case ... probably one of many. :-)
For Surgery #2 - I only remember that I had Demerol. Right after probably the worst pain I have experienced -- labor included. I will repeat: Demerol is good. I was thanking God for that particular pain medication which came at a time when I didn't feel like I could tolerate pain for one more second. An anethesiologist came in and gave me one shot - then another shot - then a third shot. FINALLY I felt relief. Then I was wheeled into surgery for the 3rd time (or so I'm told). Actually, it was my second surgery but my third procedure. Something happened to my intestines and, like I already said, I was told it had "flipped over like a garden hose" and nothing - not a piece of jello, not a drop of liquid, would go down.
I will try not to get too graphic here but the long and short of it is that I was asked at one point to try to take a small bite of sugar free yellow jello. Within 15 seconds of swallowing it came back up as a yellow frothy foam. This was the case with anything I tried to swallow. Each and every bite - and it hurt everytime I was asked to try to keep something down. I got dehydrated. I felt soooo miserable - the pain was, as I already said, indescribable.
Did I mention there was pain?
Ahhh yes - and gastric bypass is the easy way out ... hmmm -
If you say THAT ... you have NEVER had gastric bypass.
'nuf said! :-)
Friday, November 20, 2009
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