Anyone else had these complications?

My poor mom had her surgery on Dec. 10th, 2003. Since then her complications have grown increasingly severe and painful. She developed a fistula right after surgery. This means, basically that food is going into her new stomach, through a hole joining her new stomach with her old, and then right out into her old stomach. Thus, the surgery is basically not working at all. The surgeon thought the fistula might heal, but it doesn't seem to be doing so. She's devastated. On top of the fistula, her wounds still have not healed. Her surgery was a revision and was done open. She's diabetic and her wounds are thus not healing well. She's had several infections, two seromas which are draining in copious quantities, and just yesterday had her entire incision reopened and "cored" so that old infected tissue could be removed. She feels just as badly now, two months later as she did the first day. She's suffering terrible pain for no gain...or, rather loss. I feel so badly for her and wish I could give her even the slightest bit of hope. But the odds of a successful recovery are looking worse and worse. The surgeon is even considering trying an experimental procedure on her to close her fistula. I guess there's not so much of a question here, just hoping for some hopeful news...Thanks...XOXO Jen

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