Hello all. I was Banded june 5. I was scheduled for surgery at 12:30 in the after noon but did not get started until around 5 pm. When I woke up in recovery they said i was rough waking I was pulling tubes out and such. I felt okay and immediately got up and went for a walk. When I got back to my room I asked for some Ice chips. They gave me some and said be careful and just let them melt. Let the games begin. I almost immediately after swallowing felt sick so I told the nurse and she got me some anti nausea meds. I began to hiccup instantly when the drugs hit my IV. Then I would burp and all of this foam would come up. This went on for a while and finally they took me for a barium swallow. They discovered nothing was going through. The doctor tells me I have a hemotoma and there is swelling at the site. The put me on anti inflamatory meds and let me go over night vomiting every 15 mins. They are supposed to do another barium swallow the next day but apparently all the doctors were busy and they put me on steroids for the swelling and said wait one more day puking foam. At this point I am up lapping the hospital puking and feeling the worst case of heart burn ever in my life. The next day they do another barium test and nothing is going through still. This is when they tell me I need another surgery. They go in again and replace my band with a bigger one. The doctor says he guessed the wrong size the first time because there is no way to really measure for that? I was befuttled by this but okay just fix me. Doc comes out after surgery and tells my wife sucess. She is relieved until she finds out I am going to ICU now because I aspirated on the table and am not breathing properly. I then wake up on every kind of monitor there is weighing 20lbs more then when I came in the hospital and a catheder in me in ICU being told to breath and I am on oxegen coughing and hacking. I spend the night in ICU and am moved to a room the next day. What a run down room it was I might add. I find out I have pnuemonia and it was from the aspiration. I spend 8 days in the hospital and am finally home but still on oxygen. I have lost a total of 34 lbs from my highest point. But I don't know if it has been worth it. My pay check also bounced this week and I just had to file for unemployement for the first time in my life. This was supposed to be a turning point but I think things may have turned the wrong way. What a week.:angry

HOLY FREAKING CRAP!!!! Sorry for the language but I wanted to say worse. I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY LEFT YOU PUKING EVERY 15MIN FOR AN ENTIRE NIGHT!!!!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO THEY NOT KNOW HOW HORRIBLE IT IS TO PUKE RIGHT AFTER ABDOMINAL SURGERY....THE PAIN.....ARRRHHHH!!!!

Its too bad you didn't have the surgeon's phone number to call him everytime you puked to make sure he got no sleep and had a miserable night along with you!!!! That just pisses me off. They knew they needed to fix that from the start and left you hanging.

I am sooooo sorry that you suffered like that! I hope to god you are doing better. Keep us posted please and let us know you are getting through all this!

what a shitty experience. I certainly hope you're on a smoother road now and on the path to recovery. GEEZ. And what's the frickin' deal with your employer? There's no excuse to bounce a paycheck. As if you didn't have enough crap to deal with.

Best wishes

Soundman, that is a horrible ordeal that you went through! I hope you are feeling much better and you are healing fine.

Shawn