Tiffany's surgery

Tiffany has been having quite the time of it with her stomach. She had her gall bladder taken out in Dec. 2009, and then in March, they found she had an adhesion that had attached to her appendectomy scar on one end, and then wrapped itself around her small intestine, causing a partial blockage, and attaching to the intestine.

She had gone in to the ER and they decided to keep her overnight as they suspected she would need surgery. I was with her in the ER for a good part of the night, and left around 3 am, after they had put a nasal-gastric tube down through her nasal into her stomach. She was not happy with that at all as they are pretty painful to put in and are uncomfortable. '

Dr. Pugh, the surgeon on call, came in to see Tiffany the next morning. He seemed like an arrogant jerk at first and gave Tiffany a hard time. He accused her of "Dr shopping" though he had not taken the time to hear her history with her pain and the bowels, not to mention the D & C she had to have when she miscarried back in October.

When I came back into see her and see what was going on, he acted a little nicer. I was concerned as Tiffany was in tears and pretty upset. The Dr said he was going to check with the surgeon that had taken her gall bladder out in Dec. and see if that Dr noticed anything curious. When he left the room, Tiffany told me how he had talked to her and the way he had acted. I was furious. The Nurse with Tiffany said he was pretty rude. 

When he came back, I told him he had no right treating her the way he did, especially when he doesn't have all the facts and know her history. I told him it was an arrogant Dr like him back in 2000, that nearly cost Tiffany her life because of an obstruction that was not seen on the x-rays or CT scans. He changed his tune a bit, and was now acting nice. They took Tiffany down for surgery a couple of hours later.

When the operation was completed, Dr Pugh came out and told me that he had found an adhesion band that had attached and wrapped itself around the intestine causing a partial blockage. He also stated that the area where she had the previous obstruction was a little inflamed and starting to constrict. And if the pain didn't go away with the removal of the adhesion band, she needed to come back within the month and have that area resectioned.

Tiffany came home the next day, and seemed a little better for a couple days, but then the pain was back... and it is still a continuous problem getting someone to agree to go in and fix what Dr Pugh should have fixed while he was in there!

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 This is Tiffany after her surgery, feeling pretty good with the pain meds they gave her. She was pretty funny.... out of the blue she gives me this look and says... "Tatonto"  It is from Dancing with Wolves, and means Buffalo.... I have no idea where it came from, but it was pretty funny.

LOL,.... she is going to kill me for posting these!

"You are getting sleeeeeepy!"










"When I count to 3, you will be asleep.... One,.... Two..... Three!" 

She kept grabbing her cell phone and talking to people that were not there as well.... quite entertaining!