I hope this is the right place for this question. Please excuse my typoes if I miss any.. it's taking me forever to write this, being on painkillers and such.
The big day was Thursday, Jan. 8th. I was just released from the hospital on Jan 15th for what was supposed to have been a simple, one day procedure... a laparoscopic gallbladder removal because I had gallstones.
I'll try not to go into all the details, but the doctor seriously injured me. Before the surgery he told me there was a small risk he could "nick" my common bile duct. So, not only did he nick it, but he completely severed it, and also severed both bile ducts going to my liver. Three total unessential cuts before cutting loose the gallbladder.
I was rushed to a different hospital for emergency surgery...
and anyway, I'm home, if you have more questions please ask, but my question is...
yellow liquid drainage...constantly coming from my belly where one of the drains was... It's been 3 days and we've gone through several boxes of extra strength super absorbent gauze, so much that i can feel it dripping constantly, itching, dripping, wet, constantly...
I called the doctor about it but they didn't seem to understand what I was trying to say, and they never warned me about these extreme drainage.
Any information will be helpful to me.
Right now we have set up a "diaper" of sorts under the hole to catch all the drips, while I have another gauze tucked into that diaper with no tape, since I can't tape all over my cut and such. this also makes it much easier to change since i can leave the "diaper" under the hole to catch access, and change my "gauze sheet" almost every hour when it gets full and soaking wet again.
thanks...