HOW MANY OF YOU HAD TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE OPEN SURGERY AFTER WLS SURGERY?

I had my surgery May 20-2002. It was open RNY and I also had a gigantic hernia removed at the same time. Two weeks later I had an abdominal abcess. Once again im admitted for emergency surgery and sent home 2 days later with an open hole in my abdomen which had to be packed every morning and every evening. During this time I never ate. I couldnt it hurt too much. Yet I never lost any weight! Okay now two more months go by now I have 3 new hernia's develope they are shaped just like a snowman in my abdomen. I have to insist to my surgeon to put mesh in my abdomen to try to keep me from having so many hernia's develope. Now you wont believe this but not more than two months went by and I had yet another hernia. Now they had to open me up again remove the mesh that my flesh had already begun to grow through remove the hernia and insert even more mesh because my abdomen now lacked over 12" of skin just to close me up. Im so depressed now. When I lie down I can feel my intestines and the outlines of other organs. Im terrified if im ever in a wreck im a dead girl. Skin sags and sags I have been cut open over 8 times in the past few years of my life. My abdoment is shot and my body looks like a Frankenstein reject. Im still not losing weight really and truly my ENT ordered tests one day because I kept staying sick and the blood work came back twice that I was malnourished. I take my supplements, proteins and I dont lose. I feel so lost and alone. Most of all I feel like a freak and a major failure. Sorry to be such a bummer to you all. Thanks for listening. Im basically about ready to give up on all of this. Nothing is working and I just look awful. I cant stand to look in my mirror even more so now than before my WLS.. Write me if you like. I would love to hear from any of you. Hug~~~ Avis

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