[Mountaindewed]

My patient portal said examine belly inside with a camera.

Is that laproscopic surgery? I'm calling my doctors office in the morning to ask him

I'm staying overnight so I think its kinda invovled. I'd like it to be a simple OP thing thougj

[unaluna]

It said literally belly?

I thought your barium drink was going to show where the stricture was. Are they going to expand it via balloon? I saw that on google.

I saw a yt vid about a guy who had stomach cancer and they removed his stomach. His scar was like 4 inches straight down starting at his belly button. By day 4 he was eating fine, just very slowly. Like an hour to eat one mashed up hard boiled egg.

They probably want to get a good look at everything and fix everything they can. My cousin had a twisted intestine too, had an operation years ago.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

@Mountaindewed I've stayed after laparoscopic surgery twice. Neither were huge surgeries but for various reasons they wanted to keep an eye on me before I went home. The first time I had a catheter overnight then was allowed up to go to the bathroom. The 2nd time I was up and walking nearly immediately although with help for the first day or 2.

Are you having barium or colon prep? I think you said you needed your bowels emptied and that would be prep.

Is your procedure correction of a stricture in your stomach? I'm not clear on that.

[Mountaindewed]

I'm waiting to hear back from the nurse. But man is my insurance good. The entire surgery and hospital stay is over $50 thousand. But my insurance is only making me pay $280

[Mountaindewed]

Yeah its laproscopic surgery. Theres a lot of stuff in my stomach he is going to fix. Possibly scar tissue from my hyeterctomy.