worriedhusband

Thank you for all of the info and words of encouragement. I know that God works in mysterious ways! So all of the prayers can do nothing but help. Meriteri: She also had the surgery at Darnell. I dont know what her Doctors name was, however, this was his 1st sleeve that he did. I dont know if that plays into anything, but at the time all of the Docs were coming out of med school and all of the old ones were PCSing. I dont know, but I guess that someone has to be the Doctors first patient! I have read alot of different post on here and was able to talk to her yesterday, for only a few minutes. The put her on Valium yesterday, so she was kinda out of it. Hopefully that will help to control the spasms that she is having. I asked her about Reglan to control the nausea, she informed me that she was already on that too. I told her about Prevacid Solutabs. They hadnt used that one yet. All I can do it pray. At least it looks like the Docs are using the same procedures and meds that alot of other patients have had. So, hopefully, in time, all of this will pass and she will be up and at it again. Thank for all the great posts!

My wife had the sleeve done 2 weeks ago. She is still in the hospital, and while I dont know all of the details, as I am in Iraq, she doesnt sound like she is doing too great. She had to go in for a 2nd surgery the following day because she was leaking from the staples. So, they cut her open and fixed that problem. But its 2 weeks and she still cant eat anything. They have inserted a sucking tube so that she isnt constantly vomitting and they have given her a feeding IV (I'm told). They did some kind of scope down her throat and the Dr told her that she cant eat anything because of some muscle that attaches the stomach to the small intestine. Its some kind of spasm that makes whatever she has drank, come right back up!??? Is all of this normal? What to do? It doesnt seem like to Dr is doing anything at this point, other than telling her that time will help???