Kelly S????
What a coincidence, I was just about to post this (and I will under a diffrent header as well)
Hello, this is Kelly S's hubby, Henrik
Some of you might know that Kelly had her gall bladder removed the 28th of August. She went in on the 25th to the emergency room with extreme nausea and was generally not in very good shape at all. They did all sorts of tests and found that her gallbladder was only putting out roughly a 5th as much gall as they would like before they start thinking it might need to get out. A CT scan and ultrasound examination in addition to the radiology examination confirmed she had gall stones. So they removed her gallbladder and we did see some improvement.
Kelly was discharged the following Saturday, but very rapidly fell ill again and we went back to the emergency room on that Sunday. Again, she had nausea and couldn't keep anything down. They pumped her full of fluids and she seemed to be doing a lot better. On the Thursday of the 30th of August she was discharged. All this time we had been at our local hospital, Emory Adventist. This is not where she had her gastric bypass surgery; she had it at the main Emory Campus. On Friday she was still somewhat nauseous and called and scheduled a meeting with her Surgeon, Dr Smith for first thing on Tuesday the 6th. During this time Kelly couldn't eat anything to speak of without it coming back up quickly, and her fluid intake wasn't that great either without risk of it making a return trip, so to speak. When we went in, Kelly was put on the scales, and in the last 9 days she had lost 17 pounds. So at that time they decided to give her another CT scan (we had a CD with her old CT scan on it with us) followed with a lot of fluids and nutrition.
On Wednesday, the following day an associate of Dr Smith came in with the words 'I got good news and bad news". The good news where they knew what was wrong with Kelly, the bad news was it needed surgery to be corrected. They saw through the CT scans that she had an obstruction in the canal leading to her old stomach, and it was full of fluids. This off course caused her a lot of nausea and was the reason she couldn't keep anything down. So what happened was she wa**** by two issues at once, her gallbladder, and this obstruction. When she had her surgery the very same day (Actually, the Dr came in, and in less then 5 minutes Kelly had signed the consent form for surgery and was whisked away).
When they went in, they saw that the issue was caused by scarring and that the canal had twisted. So they bypassed the scarred twisted part and reconnected it. The surgery went well and she is now recuperating at Emory. She is still very weak but is no longer nauseous at all. All she has to do now is get her strength back and recuperate from 2 surgeries in less then 2 weeks. But she should be released from Emory's main campus here in a few days and is all in all a lot better.
She thanks everyone on the board for your support and also asks for you to keep her in your thoughts and prayers.
Henrik S
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