Hi all, nearly six weeks out and still very ill from a post op abdominal abscess. Was told yesterday I have to have my gallbladder out too.

I can only get in around 100 cals a day and 500 ml of Water so I have dropped almost 60lbs in six weeks.

I am so frightened that I won't survive another surgery.

Having another CT scan Wednesday to discuss a guided aspiration of the abscess. The surgeon has already told me that he thinks that it would be too dangerous.

Will I ever get well?

All I can do is go from the bed to the couch and back everyday. Even showering is hard.

I live alone so have to take care of myself.

I pray all the time because that is all I can do. I have a counsellor who phones me on a Friday morning. She says that I have to keep fighting but I am so tired, so ill and in such despair.

I keep reading about all these people eating this and that, drinking Protein etc.

It makes me feel so sad and so scared.

I just want to go to sleep but my circulation is so poor that I have to keep moving. If I do sleep for an hour or so, I wake up in agony in my hips and legs as if no blood is moving at all.

I don't think I can take much more.

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Hang in there Gina I'll keep you lifted in prayer as well things will come together for you

Thank you x

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Gina, you're in my thoughts and I'm rooting for you. The way you feel is understandable, but you have to know that you'll have a good solution and outcome after this terrible period.

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Gina, I am so sorry you have had these complications. Please continue to follow your doctors advice and take care of yourself. I am also live alone (minus 4 leggeds) so I understand how difficult it is when you need to do everything yourself. I'm so glad that you have a counselor that can help you during this exhausting medical crisis. I agree, hang in there and although you are very tired try to write everything down that medical staff suggests. Maybe you can get a trustworthy friend to also be your sounding board during this difficult time.

Please write often and provide an update. I'm sending up prayers and positive thoughts for you!!!

My bariatric team don't actually know what more to do. Other than diagnostic tests, they say it's "a mystery" to them. Didn't make me feel better.

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Thinking of you Gina - sending you lots of prayers and positive thoughts from London UK

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Thank you, I really am losing hope.

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I am keeping you in my prayers Gina! ❤❤❤

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@@GinaCampbell I am sorry you're having such a difficult time! Do they have any rehab facilities there that maybe you could get some medical care for a few weeks? I think it's time for your Drs to do something more drastic to help you (even if it's a feeding tube temporarily)! Keeping you in my prayers!

All I can do is let them run the tests this week and pray they come up with a competent plan for me.

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Gina I'm praying over here in FL ????

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Praying for you @GinaCampbell.

That is so kind, thank you all. I am bedbound now so this forum and my phone friends are mostly all of my support.

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I am so sorry to hear about your difficulties. You are in my prayers.

Can your surgeon's office prescribe a visiting nurse or someone to check on you? Can you let a local church know that you are isolated so that at least someone can stop by occasionally to make sure you are ok? I hate that you are so isolated and have to go through this alone.

Where are you located?

I am in Yorkshire in the UK. I do speak to prayer partners on the telephone. No, there is no medical staff that could come out so I am taking taxis to my hospital appts and tests. As long as my blood tests remain decent, my bariatric team have decided that I am simply a slow recoverer. That scares me as I do have a mass behind my belly button and my stomach muscles are rigid anytime I try and stand up. Of course, everytime they touch me, they insist that I lie down, so they never actually feel the problem. Now they have decided my gallbladder has to come out, they are blaming all things on this too.

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