It's been awhile since I have posted here, actually I havent posted since my surgery on 2/13/13, I have been a lil angry and didnt want to give anyone the wrong impression of a proceedure that could save their life. First a lil bit about myself, I weighed over 320 before my surgery I am now at 277 have A-fib, take heart meds and a blood thinner. Prior to my surgery I was to stop taking my blood thinner (5 days prior) well I forgot and started 4 days prior but I did inform my doctor of my mistake, he said not to worry. I was admitted the nite before surgery so they could monitor my blood and the numbers were still a lil high so the morning of surgery they gave me plasma to bring down my numbers for the INR. I was scheduled for 7 a.m. but wasnt taken til 4 p.m. since my levels were still high, mean while they gave me a total of 5 bags of plasma. I woke up from the surgery alright and was walking around that evening and the next morning fine actually the nurses were teasing me that I would get out early. Then holy hell broke loose and I went downhill in a flash, my blood pressure dropped to 78/38 I couldnt breath nor could I respond to their request. I went into kidney and respitory failure due to having my system overloaded with fluids!!! BUT they didnt tell me this was the reason until I was being discharged 2 weeks later, they just kept telling me they didnt know what was wrong grrrr. So I come home having to have oxygen 24/7 which I never had before, a visiting nurse and therapist. My doctor said they got a lil over zealous the day of surgery, and I was thinking you could have killed me. Needless to say I was angry because of a surgery that should have only kept me in the hospital 2 days ended up to be 14 days and I come home very weak and with oxygen. I went to my first post op appointment .....strained was putting it lightly, I skipped my second but went to my 3rd and saw the PA. It's gonna be a long recovery, I have to have my kidneys checked once a month til August--so far so good. Im still winded so I dont exercise alot but I am down 43 lbs. What I want you to know is if there is any questions or feelings about what they are doing to you MAKE them explain everything and how it will affect you....dont let them treat you like an outsider THIS is your body you have the right to know what they are doing and WHY! NOW do I regret having the surgery NO not at all what I regret is the effects of some of the proceedures they did prior to my surgery. I wish everyone success in their journey and a healthy and happy life I will get there the road is just a lil longer at the moment. Celtic

It's been awhile since I have posted here' date=' actually I havent posted since my surgery on 2/13/13, I have been a lil angry and didnt want to give anyone the wrong impression of a proceedure that could save their life. First a lil bit about myself, I weighed over 320 before my surgery I am now at 277 have A-fib, take heart meds and a blood thinner. Prior to my surgery I was to stop taking my blood thinner (5 days prior) well I forgot and started 4 days prior but I did inform my doctor of my mistake, he said not to worry. I was admitted the nite before surgery so they could monitor my blood and the numbers were still a lil high so the morning of surgery they gave me plasma to bring down my numbers for the INR. I was scheduled for 7 a.m. but wasnt taken til 4 p.m. since my levels were still high, mean while they gave me a total of 5 bags of plasma. I woke up from the surgery alright and was walking around that evening and the next morning fine actually the nurses were teasing me that I would get out early. Then holy hell broke loose and I went downhill in a flash, my blood pressure dropped to 78/38 I couldnt breath nor could I respond to their request. I went into kidney and respitory failure due to having my system overloaded with fluids!!! BUT they didnt tell me this was the reason until I was being discharged 2 weeks later, they just kept telling me they didnt know what was wrong grrrr. So I come home having to have oxygen 24/7 which I never had before, a visiting nurse and therapist. My doctor said they got a lil over zealous the day of surgery, and I was thinking you could have killed me. Needless to say I was angry because of a surgery that should have only kept me in the hospital 2 days ended up to be 14 days and I come home very weak and with oxygen. I went to my first post op appointment .....strained was putting it lightly, I skipped my second but went to my 3rd and saw the PA. It's gonna be a long recovery, I have to have my kidneys checked once a month til August--so far so good. Im still winded so I dont exercise alot but I am down 43 lbs. What I want you to know is if there is any questions or feelings about what they are doing to you MAKE them explain everything and how it will affect you....dont let them treat you like an outsider THIS is your body you have the right to know what they are doing and WHY! NOW do I regret having the surgery NO not at all what I regret is the effects of some of the proceedures they did prior to my surgery. I wish everyone success in their journey and a healthy and happy life I will get there the road is just a lil longer at the moment. Celtic [/quote']

Thank you for the advice, I'm sorry to hear that you had a rough time, hopefully things will look up for you soon.

I'm so sorry that you had such a rough start, but glad that you are doing better. Praying you make a full and speedy recovery. Congrats on the loss!!

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