Gastric Bypass Truth

Wanna see my wound? I went a few days ago and got hooked up to something called a wound vac. Basically, they stuck a sponge that looks a lot like the carbon filter from my son’s fish tank into my wound, attached a drainage tube and hooked the whole thing up to this little machine [...]

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I was repeatedly amazed at the incompetence and general unprofessionalism of some of the people I dealt with during my gastric bypass surgery complication. Here are just a couple of examples, I could give more. I could talk about the nurse that wanted to know who I was going to vote for, didn’t like my [...]

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I’m taking a slight break from chronicling my weeks of misery. There’s still a bit more to tell, though I’ve already told you the worst of it. Mostly, I want to vent about some of the ridiculous things that happened – the medical personnel who were incompetant or rude or both. I really want to [...]

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Let’s see. We last left my Gastric Bypass Surgery Complication Saga as I drifted off into a drugged stupor following the trauma of watching my infected incision being re-opened and cleaned. Despite feeling like I may develop post traumatic stress disorder, it did feel better to have all the pus and gook out of it. [...]

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If that title doesn’t make sense yet, it will. Because yep, you guessed it – the surgery to fix the complication that arose from my gastric bypass surgery (the internal hernia and twisted bowels) developed a complication of it’s own. So I have a complication on my gastric bypass surgery complication. Right now we’re up [...]

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Well, despite being quite the workout for my surgeon, my internal hernia repair went well and I was back in my room within a few hours. I was in a good bit of pain, but had the “magic button” dispensing morphine when I wanted it. So far it seemed my gastric bypass surgery complication was [...]

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When I started this blog, I promised to tell the good, the bad and the ugly: everything from gastric bypass surgery complications and misery to “wow” moments. What has happened to me over the last two weeks has been both bad and ugly. It began on Tuesday, October 14th. I had some abdominal cramping, like [...]

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This article is a PR piece from the New Jersey Bariatric Center. So naturally it’s going to contain links to that facility. I don’t know anything about them, good or bad, so by using this article I’m not endorsing them or recommending them or anything. If you live in that area they’re an option I’d [...]

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How personal is the decision to have gastric bypass surgery? Is it something you can or should keep a secret, or is it even possible to hide? I’ve always been very self-conscious about my weight. Very embarrassed about being overweight. So if it were possible to hide the fact that I was having surgery, I [...]

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A friend of mine from church had her gastric bypass last week. (If you’re reading this, Hi, C!) She was in a military hospital, so apparently they do things much differently. She didn’t have a drainage tube. Worse yet, she didn’t have the magic pain button. Worst of all, she was sent home within 24 [...]

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