true2jeanna

I hope you are felling better. My daughter had similar complications. After being hospitalized so many times and a stent being place she still faces many complications today. Her primary physician ordered us to get her to Scripps Medical Center in California to have it removed immediately. In fact when she first got to Scripps she was so weak they could not remove it right then and she was in the hospital for a week with a feeding tube placed in her for nutrition. We were told to return back to California in two weeks when she was strong enough to withstand the anesthesia. She still faces many complications and was granted Social Security disability 2 years ago. She had her surgery July of 2010 at the age of 19. Today she is 25 and sufferers severe depression. Before she had the surgery she was going to school and only had one month to go to get her cosmetology license. Needless to say after the procedure she never was able to finish that last month. I watch her vomit everyday and sometimes it's blood that she vomits. Her diarrhea still remains, especially since she had to have her gallbladder removed 2 months after the surgery. There were many things that were not told to us before the procedure such as her not being a candidate for the procedure because of a surgery that she had as an infant for gastric reflux better known as GERD. As far as a malpractice lawsuit good luck if you choose to proceed on with that. We lost that battle after trying that. We learned real fast that doctors will switch up their stories when it comes time to testifying against each other. In fact the physicians discharged my daughter as a patient when they found out we filed a lawsuit in our home state while we were traveling back to California due to more complications from the surgery. Their excuse was conflict of interest. I am surprised that as many people that have had complications with this procedure and the severities, that there has not been a class action suit filed against this procedure.

My daughter has had similar issues. Her surgery was July 2010. She is now on Disability at the age of 25. She had her gallbladder removed after 2 months. She remains with a stricture and has had so many procedures including a stent being placed that she is afraid of any more. We even had to take her to Scripts Medical Hospital in San Diego CA. due to complications from the stent. We have been told by numerous Dr such as gastroenterologist that there is nothing that can be done for her constant vomiting and diarrhea that she will have to live with the rest of her life. I wish she had NEVER had the surgery. It was later revealed that she was never a candidate for the surgery because of a surgery that was done when she was an infant for gastric reflux. We were never told that by the surgeon who performed the procedure and as my daughter suffers each and every day this doctor who should have never did the surgery goes on with his life performing other surgeries such as this.