This is a note to tell the 'other side' of what can go wrong with a choice for surgery and lapbanding.
I am a patient of Dr Leungs in Surrey, BC and I saw him last year in November 2007 to get 'listed' for surgery. Postponed twice in Fall of 09 the surgery was performed on October l7th as a day patient. First scheduled surgery at 9:30 out into recovery by 3:00
Asking for assistance with severe chest pain and the hospital performs an ecg and a xray. Nothing appears to be unusual and sent to daycare. Continuous complaints about severe chest pain the nurses call Leung to council. He tells the nurses to give me tylonel 3 with codene and to go home and 'stop complaining'!
After suffering horrific pain Sat and Sun but feeling it is 'normal as I was led to believe', I called my GP on Monday.
He recommended I check into emerg as my condition is not 'normal' for this procedure or any other.
After further investigation, I was diagnosed with partial collapsed lung, pnemonia and the worst....clots to the lung.
It is vertually by the 'grace of God go I' as I truly should not have been here today.
After spending 7 days in emergency and 8 days in the surgical ward (horrors with this) I returned home.
I am currently on blood thinners, going to the lab twice a week to have my blood tested for INR readings and have been advised that I will be on thinners for a min of 6 months.
Dr Leung visited me twice - once in emerg and once on the ward and both times he was rude and obnoxious.
I was in the care of the hospital dr and a respirtory specialist for my care.
To this date Dr Leung has not followed up with me, I have been in emerg again (this time I will only go to Royal Columbian) and the most serious at this time is that my 'port' is protruding out of my skin about 1".
I can not go back to Leung as any physican who sends a patient home with Tylonel with any kind of chest pains, and does not follow up only indicates to me that he is only in it for the money.
I have lost 22 pounds, but primarily from the IV that I was on for l6 days and the week after on fluids/soft foods.
I am not loosing any further weight at this time, have bad nausea and chest pains so this is now my primary goal to find an alternative physician who may have some compassion for his profession.
There is 'risk' with any surgerical procedure and I have had over a dozen in my life so I am not a 'new kid on the block' but this is certainly the first.
