Birdgirl73

[tootsie roll]

Dave and Birdgirl,

Sorry to hear about this. We had a very serious problem recently also.

My wife had to go the ER by ambulance two weeks and a half weeks ago. I called 911 - she was sick, but wouldnâ??t have decided to call on her own. We were told that she needed emergency surgery immediately for complete bowel obstruction. We were lucky -the surgeon that performed the operation, which took three hours, is very well regarded (listed on Castle & Connolly several years) and there was no gangrene. We'll know more when we get the operative and pathology reports and bring them to an gastroenterologist. It was due to adhesions from previous (unrelated) surgery and/or a fibroid strangling the intestine.

She's home now, recovering - with only a setback due to pain from a intestinal/groin (we think) strain that occurred after the hospital release.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery and future health.

BK

Wow. That for sure was an emergency! I hope your wife is feeling better and healing well.
Thank goodness for the no gangrene!! ::wipes brow::

I've had surgeries and I often wonder what is going on inside with the scaring. eek.

tootsie roll Reviewed by tootsie roll on 02-03-2007. Birdgirl73 We need some good karma. Slip posted this issue before but was deleted because we didn't really have the thumbs up from the family to post it but this is from her hubby: "You can say she's having heart rhythm and heart valve problems and is in the hospital and, we hope, will be released next week." Get well very soon........we all miss ya!:( Rating: 5

[crudemood]

Feel better soon birdgirl..

[BabySnookums]

i love you sistah...hope you get better soon *sends wellness vibes your way*

[Skink]

I will be thinking about you BG... get well soon!!! before Slip goes crazy again,,,LOLz...

[Breukelen advocaat]

Wow. That for sure was an emergency! I hope your wife is feeling better and healing well.
Thank goodness for the no gangrene!! ::wipes brow::

I've had surgeries and I often wonder what is going on inside with the scaring. eek.

Thank you.

It came as a total shock - I was in the ER with her from 8 AM to 11PM, while they were running CAT scans and other tests, and went home because I was wiped out and did not suspect that the condition was that serious. I then got a call and had to go back - after midnight. This was a close call - five more hours and it would have been too late - there was no time for a second opinion or doctor-hunting.

After we get the reports, we have to find out what to do about maintenance and prevention - but there really isn't much you can do to actually prevent the adhesions. We're hoping that the fibroid was the main culprit - and not adhesions that will come back. In the past she's had surgeries for myomectomies, a hysterectomy, a non-malignant ovarian tumor (one ovary removed), and an appendix removal during the ovarian surgery because it was extremely inflamed. We think that a fibroid, or endometrial tissue, attached itself to the small intestine and caused the blockage. I took her to the ER 3 months ago for vomiting, but they blamed her symptoms on an anti-inflammatory med she got from a podiatrist - I now think that she had partial blockage at the time, which became complete when she started throwing up bile. This was her worst surgery yet - and the others were not picnics.

[partyguy420]

i feel like shit... i thought this thread was for some one to ask birdgirl for something, like maybe about one of her pets... but i didnt relise she was in the hospital...since im a nice guy... im not going to make you fill out a application for my (i forget the word)gratitude(ithink thats the word i was trying to think of, i hope it is to) i know its very scary going to the hospital... scary thing is... i have not been in the hospital for something that was directly related to me... except for one time when i was born... everyother time was for some one else...(exsamples... grandma, grandpa, my younger brother... and a ex gf) and even for those ex-samples its scary...

anyways... i hope you get better... and i hope to see you back on here soon... your one of the nicest peoples on here...

[thcbongman]

Get well soon to be stronger than ever.

[LIP]

Tell Birdgirl im thinkin of her and wish her a speedy recovery. We're all thinking of you!

You'll be right as rain before you know it!

All my love, LIP.

[delusionsofNORMALity]

even i love birdgirl and i don't like anybody.
well, i know you'll be back quickly so:

[align=center]see you soon[/align]


by the way, while you're in the hospital don't eat the green jello. no one knows what's in that stuff, but it can't be good.

[Dave Byrd]

Hey, guys. Bird sends her love to you all. I took a print-out of this thread up to her at the hospital this morning. She laughed and was thrilled to see it. She's feeling better and is being upgraded to a different room sometime today when one becomes free. May get to come home on Monday. We're feeling relieved that she's looking and breathign a lot better. She's even starting to be interested in food again, too, which is good. Not green jello, though, or blue. She always says that any sort of food product that comes in the same colors as Windex or other cleaning products can't be a good thing.

Thanks for your messages. I'll update this again after I see her later today.