Had a question about the stomach (staples) healing, can you develop a leak way after surgery or is it the longer your post-op the stronger it becomes b/c body has healed??? wondering if you can get a leak yrs later??

From what I understand risk for a leak is during the healing stage of the staple line. Although my surgeon told me only about 2 weeks and your safe. I have read of people having/discovering they have a leak as late as 4 weeks out. I am not too sure of the stats on that but eventually the stomach's staple line heals completely...and I hope I'm correct about that.