Update on BarbaraC

Barbara had major complications in surgery.  When the surgeon made the first incision he severed her colon.  That had to be repaired first then they did the bypass.  Barb is in ICU.  I hate this kind of news, will update more tomorrow.  Please keep Barb in your prayers! Diane

Thanks for the update Diane.  I really hate that this had to happen to Barbara.  I will pray for complete recovery for her.  If you talk to her, please let her know that we are all thinking and praying for her.

Thanks,

Donna

 

 

Diane, Thanks for updating us.  We are praying hard!

Diane, Thanks for the update, I pray she is okay, I have never heard of this before, I hope she heals quickly. Please let us know when you get more news, Bless her heart.

Thanks for the update Diane.  If you speak to her or her family, let them know there are a lot of prayers being offered up for her.  It's interesting, I watched Big Medicine last night (I'd DVR'd it) and the younger of the two doctors said that the first incision is the hardest because it's done blind.  He said there's always the potential to accidentally hit something you don't want to.  Sounds like what happened to Barbara.  I hope her recovery goes as smoothly as possible.  Ellen

I hate to hear that about Barbara. It makes me a little nervous because I am going through the Duke WLS Center too. I will be praying for her. Send her my love.

I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine and I'll be dancin' dancing in no time :dance: :dance: :dance:

Ellen, you are right the first incision is always the most difficult, because it is done blind. Initiallly, the colon was "nicked." The examined the wound to determined it it would be necessary to open me up to complete the procedure or if it could still be done labproscopically. I am glad that they took them time to evaluate all of the pro's and con's. I'm also glad that they opted to try to contunue laproscopically. While it took longer to complete the surgery laproscopically, I I'm glad I'm not having to endure that longer recovery that would have been associated with an oper procedure.

The decision was may to "rescect" or  "cut" out the whole area of the colon that was effected to ensure that there would not be a leak later, down the road.  This is what took so much longer. After that was done the rest of the RNY went smoothly.

When they did the barium swallow, Dr Brown check and didn't fine any leakage. Also I got a 2 For !, because they did a complete colonoscopy to be sure that all was in good shape.

The Dr's said that they had never seen anyone had "cleansed" the colon as well as I had and that was one of the reasons that they were able proceed laproscopically. So when it's your turn, but sure to clense, clense, the bowels.