Finally Home!

My sleeve was done on Tuesday, Jan 6 and all went well.

They wanted to send me home on Wednesday, Jan.7, but silly people gave me liquid Percocet and knocked me out cold for 8 hours.    Which was just as well because my period started and that was more uncomfortable than anything related to the surgery.  I told them if they wanted me to leave, we should switch to Tylenol.

I made it home Thursday afternoon and promptly started my Juice Party and vitamins (chewable) and pills crushed in to apple sauce 

I started running a fever around 6PM and it kept rising, despite taking Tylenol.  When I passed 101 degrees at midnight, I called my surgeon and was directed to the ER, just in case I had a leak.  It was a really bad night there of trauma, flu and screaming infants, but it was getting better by the time I arrived at 1AM.   I only waited 3 hours for a bed, some earlier comers had waited up to 7 hours (a patient comment later confirmed by a nurse -- but we get a fair number of folks through here who don't have primary care doctors or don't want to wait until normal hours -- I've never figured out which one.)

The staff was pretty quick on spotting redness in my incision (the one for removing the excess stomach), the other ports were fine.  They called Surgery, who never found their way downstairs until the day shift doctor came on, who knows my Bariatric Surgeon and called her directly.  A really good PA, I've seen her before (way too much time in this ER over the years) came down, confirmed my condition and ordered antibiotics, which the pharmacy took another three hours to deliver.   I'm telling you this place is running over capacity today.  Sinai Baltimore is a good hospital and that's why things take time -- they put their emphasis on doing it right more than on speed.

So I am finally at home and relieved that the Transition Eating Class is actually on the 19th, not today.  I'm still fiddling around with the vitamin schedule to keep my Synthroid (thyroid replacement) far enough away from my calcium.  

So far, so good.

Glad to see your home, hope you feel better soon keep a close eye on yourself, don"t lett it get infected.  jann

HI -
I had surgery at Sinai as well with Dr. Gandsas. I am hoping you are doing well.  Feel free to send me private message if youneed to talk.

Iman