**If this is too far astray for this group... Jim, go ahead and pull it, but I thought -somehow- it needed posting: perhaps for no other reason than to purge it from my brain**
My wife is an RN. She works in PACU [basically to the common person, that's the recovery room after one has surgery]. Last night she was on-call. Sure enough, at 11:15pm her pager goes off and she needs to go in. My daughter and me kiss her and off she goes. She arrives back home at 3:30am after recovering a 21yr old male who had to have his gull bladder removed. He had come through the ER, straight into emergency surgery, then to my wife. He weighs 431 pounds. His history is approximating about 16,000 calories per day, mostly fast food, the rest 'homemade' food 'by mom' in the form of mac-n- cheese, fried fish, lots of potatoes in the mashed variety, meatloaf, fried chicken, biscuits, loves his vegetables [according to mom] with butter & Velveeta cheese... etc. Favorite Activity: video games. Yesterday he had eaten 44 'Buffalo' chicken wings and 3 orders of 'chili' fries, a couple fried 'breaded' salmon steaks and cauliflower with cheese when he began having extreme middle-back pain. After his mom gave him 'a large bowl of ice cream & 2 TBSP of Pepto Bismol to help ease the pain' and the pain didn't ease up, he was brought to the ER where it was discovered his gull bladder was enlarged, discharging bile, and about to bleed-out. He did okay in surgery. The surgeon had difficulty getting to his gull bladder as his liver was so enlarged due to his size. My wife had difficulty with him in recovery do to his size... his wound site kept bleeding because of his size, the pliability of his abdomen due to fat, and he was reacting poorly to meds [stopped breathing many times, and she had to 'bag' him 5 different times]. He also vomited up his entire day's intake of food because of not reacting well to the various agents given to him during his procedure. After my wife stabilized him, she transported him to his room. The patient was lucid by this point, in discomfort, curious what had happened to him, and asking for food, "something spicy". My wife explained what had happened, and that spicy food was -more than likely- not ever going to be in his day to day menu again -- due to not having a gull bladder in his body any longer. When she got him to his room, his mom & dad were there waiting. His parents asked the usual questions. My wife answered them. As my wife was leaving the room with the boy's parents, his mom began opening and emptying out a large grocery bag with the statement, "just a little something for him, for the morning, when he wakes up". She pulled out 2 large bags of Doritos, a store-bought deli container of 'Buffalo' chicken wings [24-count], a large squeeze bottle of Hidden Valley ranch dressing, a 2-litter bottle of Coke and a 12" double layer chocolate cake. My wife explained that this wasn't a good thing. That this food was not going to do him any good favors, and especially after the gull bladder removal. The mom looked at my wife and said, "You obviously don't have children, boys just like to eat!" This kind of thing is heartbreaking to me. -Scott -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
