Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Chuck's Journey: Journal Entry #6

Chuck’s Journey: Journal Entry #6

 

The surgery was successful.  I had secondary complications.  The doctor cut my bowl, and my 3 to 4 hour surgery took 8 hours.  I was hard to get off the Anastasia and aspirated.  I developed aspiration pneumonia and spent 7 days in ICU.  I was released and a day later I developed bloody diarrhea.  I began getting light headed and started to pass out.  My wife called an ambulance and I was rushed to Charlotte Hungerford Hospital.  My blood pressure was 50/34, Heart rate in the forties.  My respiration was decreased.  I was transferred to Bristol Hospital.  At Bristol Hospital it was determined I was internal bleeding because of the blood thinner injects I was prescribed when I left the hospital.  I lost 4 pints of blood.  I need two blood transfusions.  I stayed in the hospital for another 5 days.  I was hospitalized a total of 12 days. 

 

 

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