Cathynthesky
Member
Hi all,
I’m new here. I’m looking for help and advise.
I had surgery on October 17, 2019. I went home the next day. I ran a fever on the way home. I told the doctor, but they said it wasn’t high enough to be significant. I ran a fever every time I moved around and call my doctors office to let them know. I was never asked to come back in for a check. Ten days later I thought I was having a heart attack, my left shoulder hurt. I went to the emergency room. They did a cat scan, it turned out to be a leak where my staple line is. It had formed a pocket outside my stomach. I was lucky that it stayed in the pocket and did not burst. I was sent by ambulance to the hospital I had my sleeve surgery. I naturally thought that I would go back into surgery and get it fixed.It was to inflamed. There I stayed for the next five days. I now have a picc line in my right arm and a drain under my left arm. Everyday I am hooked up to TPN for 14 hours. I constantly have to empty my drain and keep track of the output. This has now gone on for over six weeks. Which means nothing by mouth. Other than a sip of water when I take a pill. I was on antibiotics for four weeks. I am truly miserable. I feel like a prisoner in my own home. On top of that, TPN cost about a thousand dollars a day. I can’t work, I’m a flight attendant, I can’t go to work toting bags of TPN, and a drain and iv lines hanging out. I know I’m feeling sorry for myself.
I would really like to hear other people’s stories about complications and how you handled them.
Thanks for reading
I’m new here. I’m looking for help and advise.
I had surgery on October 17, 2019. I went home the next day. I ran a fever on the way home. I told the doctor, but they said it wasn’t high enough to be significant. I ran a fever every time I moved around and call my doctors office to let them know. I was never asked to come back in for a check. Ten days later I thought I was having a heart attack, my left shoulder hurt. I went to the emergency room. They did a cat scan, it turned out to be a leak where my staple line is. It had formed a pocket outside my stomach. I was lucky that it stayed in the pocket and did not burst. I was sent by ambulance to the hospital I had my sleeve surgery. I naturally thought that I would go back into surgery and get it fixed.It was to inflamed. There I stayed for the next five days. I now have a picc line in my right arm and a drain under my left arm. Everyday I am hooked up to TPN for 14 hours. I constantly have to empty my drain and keep track of the output. This has now gone on for over six weeks. Which means nothing by mouth. Other than a sip of water when I take a pill. I was on antibiotics for four weeks. I am truly miserable. I feel like a prisoner in my own home. On top of that, TPN cost about a thousand dollars a day. I can’t work, I’m a flight attendant, I can’t go to work toting bags of TPN, and a drain and iv lines hanging out. I know I’m feeling sorry for myself.
I would really like to hear other people’s stories about complications and how you handled them.
Thanks for reading
