devoneberhardt
My week in the hospital
Nov 22, 2009
Well it all started Sunday, I was out and started to get these terrible pains in my belly above where my G tube was, to the point where I could barely move, so I went home and went to bed. All night I tossed and turned in terrible pain, when I got up Monday,There was a knot under my skin the size of a tennis ball so I called the surgeons office and they told me it was probably scar tissue to rub it and put a heating pad on it. So I do this and a few hours pass, and the pain got worse to where I could barely move and the knot seemed to have gotten bigger, so I call the surgeons office back again and tell them I need to see someone today, or I was going to the ER. Well they told me I could come straight in, so I did and it was a good thing that I did. When the Nurse practitioner and surgeon on call checked it, they said it was either a fluid pocket or a hernia that I had to have a CT scan to be on the safe side. Well they told me to go to the ER. I go around to the ER and it was an absesed that had started to form in the tract where they pulled out the G tube. They admitted me into the hosptial and I was there from Monday 11/16/09 until Saturday 11/21/09. I was hooked up to IV anitbiotics, pain meds and had 3 different CT scans while I was there, it started to leak and ooze out of the hole where the Tube was taken out of, so they opened that hole up some more and packed it. So now I have a hole in my side that I have to pack 3 times a day for the next week. I am home and on pill antiobiotics. I feel a lot better, but I was scared at first because I did not want to have to get another surgery, even though it would not have been as major as the Bypass, it would have still been surgery. But I am home, no surgery and the infection is going away with just a drain and some antibiotics. Thank God. I hope that this is the only complication that I have. I am 4 weeks out and seem to be doing good so far.
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About Me
Baltimore, MD
Location
27.9
BMI
Surgery
10/23/2009
Surgery Date
Apr 03, 2009
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