My wife had surgery 5-8, having complications, please help?
for those of you following the board i thank you for your answers to the question i put out yesterday, but i have a serious concern brought on by complications, my wife had surgery 5-8, (lap rny), she had a number of adhesions the doctor had to resolve prior to getting to the surgery site, after she had the leak test yesterday she was in extreme pain in the lower admonden, which kept getting worse, the doctor ordered a cat scan to find the source of the pain and found that she had a leak in the lower bowel, and had to have emergency surgery, the surgery occured last nite was i was told it went well, this morning i spoke to my pcp and was told that he is pleased with her progress and she is stable, sorry about giving a long story, but here are my questions, what do i have to worry bout now (infection, pertinis, etc,), was this a normal risk of the surgery or a DR. error & can anyone share likewise occurances to help me feel; not so alone, thanks
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