LIFE UPDATE: 10/8
I’m sure some of you heard about what I’ve been going through medically, but in the past fourish weeks I underwent 3 life saving surgeries at UNC. I had a feeding tube placement procedure done at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital at the very beginning of October that resulted in a terrible "catastrophe". The adhesions from my previous three surgeries (for SMAS and MALS) made placing a GJ feeding tube more difficult than before, and the Interventional Radiologist said she put her full force to get the tube through. We believe that this force along with my complex anatomy, made it so my stomach disconnected from the wall and left a giant hole spilling my gastric contents all throughout my body. This led to infection pretty much everywhere for over 6 days and my doctors here worked very hard to get rid of it. Thankfully we had an appointment scheduled with my complex care physician, Dr. Michael Steiner, 36 hours after WFBH discharged me. I actually don't remember much of