annabellarose77
Active Member
First, I just wanted to thank everyone for the well-wishes and condolences of the passing of my dad. The holidays were tough. I wanted to post on here that I had a surgery date and all, but things got crazy before we left Tennessee with dealing my dad's affairs and trying to get everything in order for us to leave. We decided to fly, my cousin is going over twice a day to check on my dogs, and my uncle who lives next door goes over daily as well. This surprised me because he's not much of an animal lover, but I think he's trying to step in where my father is gone. So far, everything is going ok back there. I missed the snow storm and cold front.
Dr. K. did my surgery on January 12th, and amazingly he didn't have to cut into my chest. Everything went well. There was a huge internal hernia he fixed, and I do mean huge. He said it had to have been growing for several years. So my guess is it occurred right after my gastric bypass surgery. When I kept telling Houston I was having pain on my right side, and he said it couldn't be a hernia or anything related to the surgery if the pain was on the right and not the left. WRONG! Dr. K. said the hernia started on the left, but had completely folded over my right bowel. No wonder I was having so many issues. Anyways, I have pictures he took for me as souvenirs. I have been out of the hospital and back at the hotel since last Wednesday, and mostly everything is going ok. I was having a lot of pain on my right side, turned out to be trapped fluid. He put something appearing to be a piece of latex glove and pushed it into my belly button for the fluid to drain, and put me on antibiotics just in case since I'm still running a low-grade fever. The pain is much more tolerable now, but the crap flowing out of that contraption is nasty and never-ending. That and the feeding tube are the only things I have now thankfully. I do have to admit that when I first woke up in my room after the surgery, the pain I felt made me wish I was dead. I'm just now getting over the hump of what the hell did I do to myself. Thankfully, I'm not having much nausea, but trapped gas is another story. I have been able to eat some foods, but I can only eat a few bites and then I feel this internal burping. I don't know what else to call it.
I will be glad when the pain is over and I can sleep on my side again. I've never had an open surgery, much less something this complex. I was wondering how long it normally takes to get to the point where you can walk around for awhile and not be in pain, or have to stop and sit down because you're tired out. I'm not wanting to run a marathan, but I would like to see some of California before we leave. Right now, I don't even want to go out of my room. I'm a pretty scary site.
Honestly, I am just so grateful to Dr. K....I am so grateful to have found this forum and gotten all the advice and facts that I did. Dr. K. has given me a fresh start at being healthy again. I have to start rebuilding my life, but having my health back makes that so much easier. What a blessing to have such a brilliant, warm, generous, compassionate surgeon. I will never take that for granted again.
Dr. K. did my surgery on January 12th, and amazingly he didn't have to cut into my chest. Everything went well. There was a huge internal hernia he fixed, and I do mean huge. He said it had to have been growing for several years. So my guess is it occurred right after my gastric bypass surgery. When I kept telling Houston I was having pain on my right side, and he said it couldn't be a hernia or anything related to the surgery if the pain was on the right and not the left. WRONG! Dr. K. said the hernia started on the left, but had completely folded over my right bowel. No wonder I was having so many issues. Anyways, I have pictures he took for me as souvenirs. I have been out of the hospital and back at the hotel since last Wednesday, and mostly everything is going ok. I was having a lot of pain on my right side, turned out to be trapped fluid. He put something appearing to be a piece of latex glove and pushed it into my belly button for the fluid to drain, and put me on antibiotics just in case since I'm still running a low-grade fever. The pain is much more tolerable now, but the crap flowing out of that contraption is nasty and never-ending. That and the feeding tube are the only things I have now thankfully. I do have to admit that when I first woke up in my room after the surgery, the pain I felt made me wish I was dead. I'm just now getting over the hump of what the hell did I do to myself. Thankfully, I'm not having much nausea, but trapped gas is another story. I have been able to eat some foods, but I can only eat a few bites and then I feel this internal burping. I don't know what else to call it.
I will be glad when the pain is over and I can sleep on my side again. I've never had an open surgery, much less something this complex. I was wondering how long it normally takes to get to the point where you can walk around for awhile and not be in pain, or have to stop and sit down because you're tired out. I'm not wanting to run a marathan, but I would like to see some of California before we leave. Right now, I don't even want to go out of my room. I'm a pretty scary site.
Honestly, I am just so grateful to Dr. K....I am so grateful to have found this forum and gotten all the advice and facts that I did. Dr. K. has given me a fresh start at being healthy again. I have to start rebuilding my life, but having my health back makes that so much easier. What a blessing to have such a brilliant, warm, generous, compassionate surgeon. I will never take that for granted again.
