He Thought I Was Just Being Difficult
I had a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in April of 2017. After I went home from the surgery, the expectation was that I would be on a liquid diet for a week, and then slowly start reintroducing soft foods, etc. Two weeks in and I still couldn’t keep down an ounce of protein shake.
My husband at the time was getting frustrated with me because he thought I was being deliberately difficult. My mother drove me to the hospital in the middle of the night where I spent the next 12 hours having every test imaginable run on me. That’s when doctors made a gruesome discovery.
It turns out, within 24 hours after my surgery, my intestine that was reconnected at the “Y” junction had actually come apart. Everything I’d tried to eat had just been draining into my abdominal cavity. After emergency surgery, I spent 10 days in the ICU recovering before I went home. Boose81