Quote:we all need to pay attention to what our bodies tell us. (well, I don't but that's another story)
good advice and comment - i fully agree , particulary with the second part :wink:
wishing you both the very best !
hbg
(if i'd known i'd live this long , i'd have taken better care of myself .
now it's just : live and let live !)
I'm enormously relieved.
I love happy endings.
I just got back, had to stop and eat. Need to look up a couple of words..
Dys had immediately described to me what the doctor told him - I was there but several feet away for privacy - back in a short bit.
yippee! Thank you Dys. And thanks to Osso in advance. Phew!
I can't immediately find stuff on google for this exact situation, so I'll use (our) own words for what we understand.
The surgery was long, but we don't know now exactly how long. We think it started at ten; though she entered the unit at nine, there was some delay, I think for yet more tests, not sure. The guy at the surgical waiting room desk told dys 'about ten'. The doctor came out to talk to Dys at 1:10. (It was projected to be an hour or so procedure).
The stones were in the bile duct exceptionally tightly. The surgeon spent much time trying to deal with this by different methods from different ends of the duct, each method not working.
He then put in a bypass shunt of some sort, and of a dual nature.
The part of the duct that had the stones was tied off at each end.
It sounds to me like - the two healthy ends of the duct were connected with a piece (loop) bypassing the blocked section.
There is a secondary (loop with a Y shape) put in that is temporary, and drains outside the body with the leg of the Y. This will allow the permanent loop to heal completely.
The temporary loop/drain will be removed in an office procedure in ten days, or so.
The tied off part of the duct with the stones will wither over time. I know there's a word for that and can't think of it right now.
I may have this wrong in some way, which is why I started looking for med graphics to show such a procedure..
Anyway, the doctor said he hadn't seen this situation in fifteen years.
Straighten me out if you read this differently, Dys.
Atrophies, that's the word I was looking for instead of 'withers'.
Boy does that sound complicated!
P.S., I'm glad she's in the hospital for a day or two longer. I want them watching her clotting time, electrolytes, and so on.
Good news. Thanks. Now Dys can go back to ignoring Diane's complaints!
We are all happy for them both.
Trust Diane to live for years with inconvenient gallstones and make such a hospitable hostess that the crystals didn't want to leave and became permanently embedded.
Could the drain simply be that--an outlet for the fluid from outraged tissues? That is quite common after abdominal surgery.
Glad all is well and I hope the surgeon treats himself to a pre-dinner drink tonight.
If someone was bumped for Diane, why that's unfortunate.
Hoping all get now the rest everyone needs.
No, I don't think so, Noddy, but don't trust that no.
Maybe I've got it gummed up, but I could swear Dys said it was a double loop, one temporary. Can't figure how that works..
Wow, so the gallstones are still in there? But they will be absorbed into the body somehow, along with the (now-useless) section of bile duct that they're in, after the bile duct atrophies?
(Thank you for being such a good filler-inner, Osso, sorry for additional questions... trying to get it straight.)
I don't know, Soz. That's why I wanted to go hunting on google. The sites that come up first seem to have to do with various cancer bypasses, not this exact situation, but I didn't look very far. While I'm wired, beside myself with relief, I'm not quite in the serious googleing mood for a bit.
Dys can confirm, I think, what I said, but I think he's probably taking a well earned nap.
If you want to look, I started with bile duct blockage bypass...
Ok, to start with the doc used some terms I can't pronounce let alone spell. My understanding is that the gall bladder is totally gone, the bile duct still has the original stones which will remain in place (til death do us part) but are no longer connected to anything as there is a "bypass" or as Osso said a "Y" although the doc used the term a "T", one branch of the "T" will be closed/shut off/disconnected in about 10 days while the other branch will become a permanent Duct for the bile to flow (I believe to the Liver) Doc said he has not heard of anyone using this procedure in a least 15 years but it is tried and true and he had somewhat expected this to happen and was prepared for the procedure.
Ah, so not double - that makes better sense..
I'm glad everything is going for the better now.
(sigh of relief)
A hug for D&D.
Don't know if this means anything but when Osso and I left at 2 p.m. they said she would be moved to critical care bed within 30 minutes (where i could visit) I just got off the phone with the surgical unit and (3 hours later) she is still in surgical recovery. The doc had told me he planned to keep here sedated for quite awhile so I'm thinking that's what's going on. Just keeping her sedated. I may not know anymore until tomorrow.
What, me worry? I just ate a bean burrito and an avocado.
Whew. Get some rest, dys. Thank you for the updates.
