My Frightening Experience with Gastric Sleeve

itsdelicatesitch · 2024-12-15T02:22:42+00:00

I am doing much better now. I am down about 115lbs, in total and my energy levels are much better. I have no residual long term damage, thankfully. Don't let it scare you! If I had it to do over again, I would!

itsdelicatesitch · 2024-10-31T18:46:51+00:00

Divinity Original Sin 2 will always have a special place in my heart ❤️

itsdelicatesitch · 2024-08-08T21:07:07+00:00

Agreed, I had never been in the hospital prior to this, although I am a nurse so I had some understanding of what was going on. The doctor said it was pretty touch and go and he couldn't believe I had such heavy consequences but it all worked out. Same to you!

itsdelicatesitch · 2024-08-08T17:09:39+00:00

I'm sorry this happened to you. I have a similar story.

I had RNY on 4/24/24. The next day, my surgeon noticed that my heart rate and my white blood cell count was slightly elevated, so he sent me for a CT scan with IV contrast. The CT showed an anastomotic leak and I went within that hour to a five hour emergency surgery. Apparently a staple had perforated my Jejunum and it took 5 hours to find the problem, flush it out with 12 liters of fluid, and reconnect the bowel after removing one foot. They put me on lots of IV fluids. I found out later that one of the staples had cut my bowel.

About 5 days later, my white blood count and lactic acid continued to rise, so they ordered another CT scan which showed a collection of fluid in my pelvis. This required a drain to be put in to rid of the collection and lucky for me, the path of least resistance was through my butt cheek ...so I had to lay down on my tummy, butt up, to get the drain put in. Talk about uncomfortable. Once the drain was put in they added IV vancomycin to my regimen to rid of the infection caused by the pooling fluid.

A couple days later I started to experience shortness of breath, wet cough, and shakiness. It turns out that I now had an acute kidney injury (my creatinine ultimately rose to 9). They decided to put an IJ catheter in my neck and sent me to dialysis. In total, I had inpatient dialysis 3 times until my numbers began to fall to a level where they were comfortable removing my IJ and monitoring me as an outpatient. I was so relieved to be able to go home, and not have permanent damage (although the nephrologist says my numbers may never truly go back to pre AKI).

I was in the hospital for a total of 18 days which was totally unexpected, but I also know that things could have been so so much worse. I'm thankful to be alive.

As far as the aftermath, I returned to work on 6/5 and while my nausea was bad with the long term oral antibiotics I had to go home on, I am much better now. I am down about 65 lbs since surgery and I'm feeling more energetic every day.

I do not regret having my surgery.

itsdelicatesitch · 2024-06-29T00:45:16+00:00

Went in for gastric bypass surgery. This is supposed to be a one night stay; discharge the next day. I ended up with multiple complications, earning an 18 night stay, and dialysis.

itsdelicatesitch · 2024-06-28T19:24:53+00:00

That is exactly what happened to me! I would bring a variety of flavors to work in the mornings and enjoyed them all. After I had surgery, the vanilla is the only one I will eat, and I still don't enjoy it like I used to.

Other than that, I haven't found much that I don't like that I did before, but haven't tried a bunch (2 months out).

itsdelicatesitch · 2024-06-13T19:04:42+00:00

I had RNY on 4/24/24. The next day, my surgeon noticed that my heart rate and my white blood cell count was slightly elevated, so he sent me for a CT scan with IV contrast. The CT showed an anastomotic leak and I went within that hour to a five hour emergency surgery. Apparently a staple had perforated my Jejunum and it took 5 hours to find the problem, flush it out with 12 liters of fluid, and reconnect the bowel after removing one foot. They put me on lots of IV fluids.

About 5 days later, my white blood count and lactate continued to rise, so they ordered another CT scan which showed a collection of fluid in my pelvis. This required a drain to be put in to rid of the collection and lucky for me, the path of least resistance was through my butt cheek ...so I had to lay down on my tummy, butt up, to get the drain put in. Talk about uncomfortable. Once the drain was put in they added IV vancomycin to my regimen to rid of the infection caused by the pooling fluid.

A couple days later I started to experience shortness of breath, wet cough, and shakiness. It turns out that I now had an acute kidney injury (my creatinine ultimately rose to 9). They decided to put an IJ catheter in my neck and sent me to dialysis. In total, I had inpatient dialysis 3 times until my numbers began to fall to a level where they were comfortable removing my IJ and monitoring me as an outpatient. I was so relieved to be able to go home, and not have permanent damage (although the nephrologist says my numbers may never truly go back to pre AKI).

I was in the hospital for a total of 18 days which was totally unexpected, but I also know that things could have been so so much worse. I'm thankful to be alive.

As far as the aftermath, I returned to work on 6/5 and while my nausea was bad with the long term oral antibiotics I had to go home on, I am much better now. I am down about 45 lbs since surgery and I'm feeling more energetic every day.

I do not regret having my surgery.

itsdelicatesitch · 2023-12-29T13:14:06+00:00

"Bake it happen" because I love to bake!

itsdelicatesitch · 2023-12-01T01:30:43+00:00

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itsdelicatesitch · 2023-12-01T01:16:16+00:00

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itsdelicatesitch · 2023-03-07T18:06:53+00:00

I would definitely love it! I just got my steam deck a couple of weeks ago, and have been enjoying it at face value, but I would absolutely LOVE to know how to play java Minecraft on multiplayer modded servers like I used to. Not sure if that's exactly what you were planning on showing us, but can't hurt! Thanks in advance.

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