Michael Spath

I wish I knew. I went in for my 5 day check up feeling great, drove home and started feeling miserable. Next morning I was in the emergency department and spent the next two weeks in the hospital.

Jan 10th. So far a stent was placed for two weeks, then removed. It's out, the hole is still there and the endoscopic surgeon is doing another procedure on March 2nd, but this procedure will not close the hole and may involve placing a stent through the hole which will further delay the closure. I am an engineer and can't believe in the year 2017 there is not a patch, plug, adhesive, fastener or other method to close a hole.

I had sleeve surgery on Jan 5th and developed a leak. The process of endless endoscopies while I wither away on TPN is no longer tolerable. Are there any practices in the NY NJ area that fix these leaks? I don't mind another surgery if the leak will be fixed.