Surgery Update

Posted by chrissy | Filed under Doctor Updates

Okay, so for those of you that read the surgery #2 page for updates on the surgery I have to say so sorry. I was under a lot of drugs and apparently that effected everything I did. I would be in the middle of a conversation and then all of a sudden be asleep. I think that drugs are great for pain control, but they make you feel loopy and out of it for the most part.

Here let me give the full update on the surgery and my two satys at the hospital:

The total surgery time was about 7 hours. The liver surgery was first. The doctor used a scope first to check everything out and then opened me up. I now have an incision that goes from my chest to my pelvic bone, it looks really nice :) He was able to get in and the great news is that there was no additional disease on my left lobe of my liver, everything was on the right side…Great News. He took out about 60% of the liver (right lobe), the gallbladder, lymph notes, and more margine than he thought he’d be able to get out. The colon suregery was next. He got in there and found another 30 polyps, none appared to be cancerous. He removed the whole colon and pulled my small intesine over to the left side of my body and put the illestomy in the same spot that my colostomy was…one less inicision on my belly, which right now my not matter all that much but in the long run it will.

Okay, so I was up and moving around the day after surgery, Wed, and seemed to be doing pretty well. I was quickly moving towards a normal diet again and getting ready to come home. On Thursday, my hemoglobin dropped very low, 6.1, so after scans proved there was no bleeding internally I got a blood transfusion. I got 6 bags of platelets and 2 units of blood,. I seemed to quickly reboud from all of this because I was released from the hospital on Saturday afternoon.

However, on Monday I started to feel like something wasn’t right and we were back in the ER by 4pm and I was readmitted by 10pm. (They think they might have been a little too premature on sending me home so soon) Tuesday they spent the day doing testing to make sure that there wasn’t an infection or that my liver wasn’t leaking bile. Good News…everything was okay with the liver. The only thing we were still having issues with was back pain and spams that I was having. We finally got everything under control with them on Wednesday. I was releases yesterrday afternoon. I feel so much better than before and am so glad to be home.

So total days spent in the hospital…8 days.

Permalink | May 29th, 2009

One Response to “Surgery Update”

  1. Matt Caye Says:
    February 8th, 2010 at 6:56 am

    Just found your blog while searching Yahoo.

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