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Hey Everybody!!
Well, I got home last night after I begged and pleaded with the attending doc to let me out of jail early!! I told him I had been a good girl, and I deserved to go home early
Well, he got permission from the main doc, and I am soooo blessed I did!!!!
I have been having a hard time trying to find someone to take care of me next week when Tommy is out of town. He has to fly Mon-Friday, but I think I have someone who will take care of me. She is a nice Mexican lady who is the sister in law of a lady who goes to our church. God is good and will take care of you in your time of need!!!
Well, so many of you have been asking more details about my surgery, and today I wrote a lengthy email to my inlaws explaining it better, so I thought I would answer that here.
Thanks again everyone for all the wonderful emails, ecards, and support!!!
I love you all very much!!!
Deb
Letter to the in-laws....
What we found out was that the problem wasn't from the gastric bypass surgery itself, no anomolies or problems from the surgery itself. The doctor, who also is the top laproscopic doc in the world, told to us from not only doctors at UCI, but also Dr. Byrne, and others who had heard of him, he is ranked top in the world by academies of surgical procedures and he always wins competitions when he goes to seminars etc...and for gastric bypass, even Dr. Byrne said he was a big shot in the gastric bypass world. What takes other docs 3-4 hrs to do an operation, he can complete in a hour or less.
God also arranged for me to be with the top ERCP doctor in the country as well, and all the nurses, and my gastric doc told me that on difficult cases that other docs cant do the ERCP's on, then they call on Dr. Lee. Anyway, Dr. Nguyen, the gastric doc said everything looked great according to the anatomy, my pouch, not enlarged at all, and the technical aspect of the surgery. He opened up the old stomach and made an incision for the bile/ERCP specialist to put the scope into (ERCP stands for Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography).
Now obviously they could not do mine via the esophogus because of the old stomach no longer being attached to my esophogus, so that is why they went through the old stomach.
So, my doc said he had a very hard time threading the scope through to the bile duct because it was so enlarged and very much like a balloon, an anuerysm type of enlargement, ready to explode. He made it through though, and was able to open the duct, and had to lysis the sphincter and stricture that was causing it to narrow.
It was huge on one end of the common bile duct, and narrowed and completely closed on the other end. When they finally did open it, all kinds of bile and sludge came pouring out. He said there were even stones in there beginning to form, even though I did not have a gallbladder. So, by losing the weight so fast caused this to happen.
Many people have to have their gallbladders out after a large amount of weight loss, and by losing the weight, and not having a gallbladder, it just developed a stricture. They said this shouldn't happen again, and thank God they did not have to leave a stint in like they thought. They told me if they did leave in the stint, I would have been in the hospital for weeks, and then go back and re-operate to take it out. I am so grateful and I know it was God who #1, brought me to these specialists, and #2, saved me from having to have a stint put in, and also #3, saved my life.
The attending doc who is learning under Dr. Nguyen, told me that it is very very hard to get a spot under him, and he was grateful to have earned a spot as an attending resident under Dr. Nguyen, he said that I could have died if it had ruptured and I got peritonitis.
I am home now and I am sooo glad. Harrison is coming home for his birthday tomorrow, don't know how great it will be for him, but he said he wanted Olive Garden, and asked that Tommy just pick it up and we will eat it at home, and said money was okay since he knew I couldn't shop for him. He is so sweet. He has really been concerned and told me he had been praying for me.
Well, so many of you have been asking more details about my surgery, and today I wrote a lengthy email to my inlaws explaining it better, so I thought I would answer that here.
Thanks again everyone for all the wonderful emails, ecards, and support!!!
I love you all very much!!!
Deb
Letter to the in-laws....
What we found out was that the problem wasn't from the gastric bypass surgery itself, no anomolies or problems from the surgery itself. The doctor, who also is the top laproscopic doc in the world, told to us from not only doctors at UCI, but also Dr. Byrne, and others who had heard of him, he is ranked top in the world by academies of surgical procedures and he always wins competitions when he goes to seminars etc...and for gastric bypass, even Dr. Byrne said he was a big shot in the gastric bypass world. What takes other docs 3-4 hrs to do an operation, he can complete in a hour or less.
God also arranged for me to be with the top ERCP doctor in the country as well, and all the nurses, and my gastric doc told me that on difficult cases that other docs cant do the ERCP's on, then they call on Dr. Lee. Anyway, Dr. Nguyen, the gastric doc said everything looked great according to the anatomy, my pouch, not enlarged at all, and the technical aspect of the surgery. He opened up the old stomach and made an incision for the bile/ERCP specialist to put the scope into (ERCP stands for Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography).
Now obviously they could not do mine via the esophogus because of the old stomach no longer being attached to my esophogus, so that is why they went through the old stomach.
So, my doc said he had a very hard time threading the scope through to the bile duct because it was so enlarged and very much like a balloon, an anuerysm type of enlargement, ready to explode. He made it through though, and was able to open the duct, and had to lysis the sphincter and stricture that was causing it to narrow.
It was huge on one end of the common bile duct, and narrowed and completely closed on the other end. When they finally did open it, all kinds of bile and sludge came pouring out. He said there were even stones in there beginning to form, even though I did not have a gallbladder. So, by losing the weight so fast caused this to happen.
Many people have to have their gallbladders out after a large amount of weight loss, and by losing the weight, and not having a gallbladder, it just developed a stricture. They said this shouldn't happen again, and thank God they did not have to leave a stint in like they thought. They told me if they did leave in the stint, I would have been in the hospital for weeks, and then go back and re-operate to take it out. I am so grateful and I know it was God who #1, brought me to these specialists, and #2, saved me from having to have a stint put in, and also #3, saved my life.
The attending doc who is learning under Dr. Nguyen, told me that it is very very hard to get a spot under him, and he was grateful to have earned a spot as an attending resident under Dr. Nguyen, he said that I could have died if it had ruptured and I got peritonitis.
I am home now and I am sooo glad. Harrison is coming home for his birthday tomorrow, don't know how great it will be for him, but he said he wanted Olive Garden, and asked that Tommy just pick it up and we will eat it at home, and said money was okay since he knew I couldn't shop for him. He is so sweet. He has really been concerned and told me he had been praying for me. 
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