DSRIGGS
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The guy whom he Prachand mentored, Dr Marshall, Fucked my up royally and gave my terrible malnutrition that required me to fly to california to have a revision with Dr K. Dr Marshal is Director of Trauma for OSF St Francis in Peoria (The only level 1 Trauma center in downstate Illinois). He is a great cutter and surgeon in other areas. He screwed me up with a cookie cutter DS that was not right for me.I had a Nissen fundoplication as part of my surgery as well because of a previous injury to my diaphragm. The hole in it was larger than normal and with a bad cough, I was literally coughing my stomach up my throat. It sounds like you have a good surgeon based on DSRIGGs experience with one of her colleagues. If it were me, I would ask her to draw what she is proposing, so you know what your digestive tract will look like after the surgery. Then make your decision about whether you should look for another doctor. I suspect there might just be a misunderstanding.
One of his colleagues in his practice, Peoria Surgical Group, Dr David Crawford performed a Nissen on my oldest son after he developed untreatable GERD after chemo for his cancer (was refluxing over 50 times an hour on testing). It failed after a year herniating his diaphragm. When he went in for the repair he invaded his plueral space twice during surgery, removed the drain and then Cameron had to complain for two days before they did and Xray to see his space was full of blood. They had to do an emergency procedure to put in a chest tube with no anesthesia and he was in the hospital for a week with that tube and it looked like about 10 gallons of blood came off....and oh yeah, the fucker cut his vagus nerve when doing the surgery and never told us! We only found out 12 months later when diagnosed with severe gastroparesis and we asked for the op report where he pretty much says he cut the vagus nerve....guess what that can cause? YEP GASTROPARESIS...and oh, that repair failed again so we went to California to Dr K who put in a RnY drain to get food off his stomach (no weight loss component as nothing really bypassed) and he repaired Cameron's diaphragm and redid the wrap. He also found a meckels diverticulum on Cameron and removed it.
Yeah, I am a little bitter, so my apologies if I am a little heated on this one........and don't ever believe the frivolous law suit BS you hear because even after all of that our attorney told us we couldn't win the case here in Peoria.
Prachand is a a good cutter from what I understand, we have a member who had her DS with him and and a friend just had a virgin DS with him but I don't buy for a second this stuff he is telling Joyouslyme about not being able to do a sleeve and still get a DS....that isn't a DS. He doesn't do many revisions to my knowledge so that is why we are recommending a consultation with Dr K.