Just kidding.
Having open gastric sleeve surgery very soon. This is after an aborted attempt at laparoscopic robot sleeve in 2022.
Why you may ask? It's complicated- more accurately, *I* seem to be complicated. I have a lot of scar tissue from previous surgeries over the last two decades stemming from an accident and this scar tissue has been an encumbrance to a number of things, including a smooth surgery. Upon entry in the previous sleeve surgery they saw what a mess was in there which included stomach and intestinal adhesions - video of doctor during surgery:
This surgery attempt resulted in a fluid leaking wound infection that took about 3 months to fully close/heal. Like I said, I tend to be complicated, haha!
So going in for round two. The plan is to do open belly incision, address the adhesions and a gastric sleeve. Just a little nervous because in the back of my mind I have to wonder how I can complicate this one. Not my first time having a laparotomy but they were when I was younger and stronger (like bull.) These days I am older and dumb like ox.
Anyone else just complicated?
