I'm still around!
Hi all!
I am still around - just wanted to fill you all in. So I had my surgery on July 13!!! I went home, and proceeded to get sick. And sick, and sicker...So finally I was taken to Northeast health - stupid move! I should of gone to the Alex, but I was so out of it, I didn't push the issue.
Northeast was absolutely no help whatever!!! NONE! So first thing that monday morning, July 19, we called the Clinic and I was rushed in. Turns out my bowel decided to stop working after my surgery.
Ended up having emergency bowel surgery on the 19th, and I JUST got out of the hospital on Friday, July 30th. I am so, so happy to be out!! Dr. Birch is keeping an extremely close eye on me right now though. He is on holidays this week, but I have to go in to see one of the other surgeons on Tuesday for them to look at everything since I had the lap surgery first but with my bowels they had to cut me from breast bone to belly button and now I have a wound infection....plus a g-tube for my bowels that they can't take out quite yet.
So home care is coming twice a day to change my dressings, but i don't care because I am out of the hospital!!!! It is much easier to try and adjust to new foods and everything here. At the hospital, it was so hard because I absolutely HATED the food they gave me.
But I'M OUT!!!!
How are you all doing?
I am still around - just wanted to fill you all in. So I had my surgery on July 13!!! I went home, and proceeded to get sick. And sick, and sicker...So finally I was taken to Northeast health - stupid move! I should of gone to the Alex, but I was so out of it, I didn't push the issue.
Northeast was absolutely no help whatever!!! NONE! So first thing that monday morning, July 19, we called the Clinic and I was rushed in. Turns out my bowel decided to stop working after my surgery.
Ended up having emergency bowel surgery on the 19th, and I JUST got out of the hospital on Friday, July 30th. I am so, so happy to be out!! Dr. Birch is keeping an extremely close eye on me right now though. He is on holidays this week, but I have to go in to see one of the other surgeons on Tuesday for them to look at everything since I had the lap surgery first but with my bowels they had to cut me from breast bone to belly button and now I have a wound infection....plus a g-tube for my bowels that they can't take out quite yet.
So home care is coming twice a day to change my dressings, but i don't care because I am out of the hospital!!!! It is much easier to try and adjust to new foods and everything here. At the hospital, it was so hard because I absolutely HATED the food they gave me.
But I'M OUT!!!!
How are you all doing?
OMG!!!!!! I wondered where you were but never imagined you'd be back in the hospital .
I'm so sorry you developed a complication but you were in the best hands at the RAH ( forget the detour to Northwest) .
I hope your road to recovery & continued weightless are a much smoother & pleasant experience!
I'm thinking about you and praying for a speedy recovery!!
Thank you so much for the update but please rest
I'm so sorry you developed a complication but you were in the best hands at the RAH ( forget the detour to Northwest) .
I hope your road to recovery & continued weightless are a much smoother & pleasant experience!
I'm thinking about you and praying for a speedy recovery!!
Thank you so much for the update but please rest
Oh wow, so sorry to hear you had to go through all that. i wish you a speedy recoverey and hope that its all smooth sailing from here on out.
HW:274 SW:238 CW: 150.0 1St goal: 199.8 2nd goal:174 (100 pound lost)
My Persoanl Goal: (HIgh)150 (Low)140
1st goal acheived December 27th/2010. 1 week after my 3rd month surgery anniversary.
2nd goal acheived June 4th/2011. 2 weeks after my 8th Month Surgiversary.
Gall Bladder surgery April 12,2012
You can either believe it will happen.....or believe it won't. Both are self fulfilled prophesies. For Me it has happened. My Surgery was September 21/2010
Hey Kim!
I am getting better and better! I feel like I'm in the clinic weekly now...oh wait it has been weekly. I still have the 2 open wounds from the bowel surgery, and my lap site opened where they put through the stapler, and my g-tube site is healing as well but honestly, all things considered I am doing pretty good.
The wounds are healing - and healing fast than Dr. Birch thought they would. He officially gave my permission to drive on Monday - and that has been such a blessing. I am so happy not having to rely on others to get around. I am off work for the rest of this week and then I go back on Monday, but I think I'm ready then.
Home care is still coming and looking and changing the dressings for my wounds twice a day but I will say it again - it beats being in the hospital. And even with the complications I have had, I konw I made the right decision for the RNY.
I bet you are getting excited eh?
Thanks for checking up on me!
I am getting better and better! I feel like I'm in the clinic weekly now...oh wait it has been weekly. I still have the 2 open wounds from the bowel surgery, and my lap site opened where they put through the stapler, and my g-tube site is healing as well but honestly, all things considered I am doing pretty good.
The wounds are healing - and healing fast than Dr. Birch thought they would. He officially gave my permission to drive on Monday - and that has been such a blessing. I am so happy not having to rely on others to get around. I am off work for the rest of this week and then I go back on Monday, but I think I'm ready then.
Home care is still coming and looking and changing the dressings for my wounds twice a day but I will say it again - it beats being in the hospital. And even with the complications I have had, I konw I made the right decision for the RNY.
I bet you are getting excited eh?
Thanks for checking up on me!
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