LEAK in SMall intestine...RNY 2-02-04, please read

HELLO ALL. MY MOTHER IS 49 YEARS OLD AND 2 DAYS AGO SHE HAD LAPROSCOPIC GASTRIC BYPASS. EVERYTHING SEEMED TO GO WELL IN SURGERY AND THEN THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED....YESTURDAY MY DAD WENT TO SEE HER AT TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL AND WHEN HE GOT TO HER ROOM NEARLY 24 HOURS AFTER HER SURGERY HE NOTICED ONE OF THE WOUNDS WAS SEEPING AN AWFUL LOT OF GREENISH BROWN SUBSTANCE AND SHE WAS COMPLAINING OF HAVING A HARD TIME BREATING. SO HE CALLED THE NURSE IN AND SHE TOOK HER FINGER AND PUSHED BY THE WOUND AND HE SAID THAT STUFF JUST SQUIRTED RIGHT OUT IN A STREAM. BY THE TIME I GOT UP THERE AN HOUR LATER MY DAD TOLD ME THAT THE DOCTORS SAID THIS WASNT NORMAL AND THEY WERE GONNA HAVE TO BRING HER BACK INTO SURGERY BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT SHE MAY HAVE A LEAK SOMEWHERE INSIDE HER. YESTURDAY AT 3PM SHE HEADED BACK FOR SURGERY. AFTER THE SURGERY AND THE WAITING DR. MURR CAME IN AND EXPLAINED WHAT WAS GOING ON.... HE SAID THAT SHE HAD A LEAK IN HER SMALL INTESTINE AND ALL THE WASTE THAT HER BODY WAS PRODUCING WAS LEAKING OUT OF HER GOING INTO HER BLOOD STREAM AND ALL INSIDE HER BODY WHERE IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO GO CAUSING A VERY VERY BAD INFECTION ALL THROUGHOUT HER BODY AND ALSO AFFECTING HER KIDNEYS AND LUNGS(THATS WHY SHE WAS HAVING A HARD TIME BREATHING). HE SAID THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO CLOSE UP THIS LEAK BUT SHE WILL BE STAYING IN ICU ON A RESPIRATOR WITH DRAINAGE TUBES IN HER FEET, NECK AND ALL OVER HER BODY TO DRAIN THIS INFECTION WHILE THEY GIVE HER LOTS OF FLUIDS AND ANTIBIOTICS. HE ALSO SAID THAT THAY HAD TO CUT HER OPEN ALL THE WAY AND THAT ITS TOO EARLY TO KNOW IF ANY IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE TO HER LUNGS AND KIDNEYS..... I CANT BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING, MY GOD, YOU DONT THINK THIS IS POSSIBLE, I MEAN YOU HEAR ABOUT THE 1 AND 200 PEOPLE DYING, BUT NOT MY MOM, SHES ONLY 49 AND HER FIRST GRAND BABY IS DUE IN 5 WEEKS, I NEED HER HERE, IM ONLY 26, MY DAD NEEDS HER, MY SISTER AND THE BABY. PLEASE PRAY FOR HER. HAS THIS HAPPENED TO ANYONE YOU KNOW???? IF SO, WHAT WAS THE OUTCOME, HER BLOOD PRESSURE IS COMING BACK UP BUT STILL IT DOESNT LOOK GOOD. PLEASE MY GOD SOMEONE HELP ME. iF YOU HAVE FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE WITH THIS SAME OR SIMILAR SITUATION I SURE COULD USE SOME ADVICE MY # IS 813-857-7050

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