Amey
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My lap band was removed on the 25th of September. I'm still tired easily...didn't realize this surgery be be so much harder than when I had it put in.
It was just day surgery. My surgery was at 10 am and I was home by 7 pm. I slept in the recliner and didn't do much but sleep and eat popsicles for 2 days. I have 5 small laproscopic holes and an incision that is about 6 inches where my port was.... That one is still not healed and part of it keeps breaking open and bleeding...and talk about itch OMG!!
Surgery was one and a half hours. I am attaching my sugical report if I can... Sometimes I can't upload from my phone. It says my band was stuck to my liver and that part of my liver had to be removed. And that my tubing had actually gone THROUGH my liver. It would have been too much of my liver to remove so she had to cut the tubing to pull it out of my liver. No wonder I felt like shit!! I literally had silicone in my liver.... Scary!!
When I went for my post-op appt the surgeon said she had removed 100's of bands but had never seen one that had gone through the liver before. And she said my stomach was 'emacerated' but did not show erosion. Also, that if we had planned to do the revision at the same time she would have had to pull out and not done it due to all the damage with my stomach and liver.
So the soonest can have the DS is January. My blood levels have to get back to normal and the hole in my liver has to be 100 percent healed. I have decided that if I can't get my insurance to pay then I will private pay. The total cost of private pay for everything would be 19K....and I could get financing for it. My surgeon... Dr Lisa Medvetz....has never done a DS but she is very skilled and has an amazing bedside manner. When a surgeon says 'Yup your incision is pissed off' and talks like a real person then I know she is my people lol.
So the plan for the DS is that she will have 6 patients in January and will do 2 surgeries each day that week. Her mentor from Pennsylvania, Dr Fred Bonnani, will fly in to proctor the surgeries.
I am feeling better already. The sharp pain in my back that I thought had nothing to do with my band is gone. My GERD is not noticeable. I can eat RAW carrots and artichokes and beef jerky! And I haven't thrown up once since surgery.
So that's the plan... And I'm ok with it
It was just day surgery. My surgery was at 10 am and I was home by 7 pm. I slept in the recliner and didn't do much but sleep and eat popsicles for 2 days. I have 5 small laproscopic holes and an incision that is about 6 inches where my port was.... That one is still not healed and part of it keeps breaking open and bleeding...and talk about itch OMG!!
Surgery was one and a half hours. I am attaching my sugical report if I can... Sometimes I can't upload from my phone. It says my band was stuck to my liver and that part of my liver had to be removed. And that my tubing had actually gone THROUGH my liver. It would have been too much of my liver to remove so she had to cut the tubing to pull it out of my liver. No wonder I felt like shit!! I literally had silicone in my liver.... Scary!!
When I went for my post-op appt the surgeon said she had removed 100's of bands but had never seen one that had gone through the liver before. And she said my stomach was 'emacerated' but did not show erosion. Also, that if we had planned to do the revision at the same time she would have had to pull out and not done it due to all the damage with my stomach and liver.
So the soonest can have the DS is January. My blood levels have to get back to normal and the hole in my liver has to be 100 percent healed. I have decided that if I can't get my insurance to pay then I will private pay. The total cost of private pay for everything would be 19K....and I could get financing for it. My surgeon... Dr Lisa Medvetz....has never done a DS but she is very skilled and has an amazing bedside manner. When a surgeon says 'Yup your incision is pissed off' and talks like a real person then I know she is my people lol.
So the plan for the DS is that she will have 6 patients in January and will do 2 surgeries each day that week. Her mentor from Pennsylvania, Dr Fred Bonnani, will fly in to proctor the surgeries.
I am feeling better already. The sharp pain in my back that I thought had nothing to do with my band is gone. My GERD is not noticeable. I can eat RAW carrots and artichokes and beef jerky! And I haven't thrown up once since surgery.
So that's the plan... And I'm ok with it
