Hello king termite. I am a licensed vocation nurse and director of a weight loss surgery program in california. Generally speaking, there is no "perfect" surgery, and unless there is a clearly obvious, blatant error on the part of the surgeon, which this appears not to be, unforseen complications occur with gastric bypass as well as other surgeries. Because of the complication your mother experienced, some bariatric surgeons prefer to use titatium staples instead of sutures in an effort to reduce the risk of leakage.

Thank you for the reply, hartlund. With the research I was doing, I was already beginning to believe this was the case. The doctor has a clean record and i've seen elsewhere that this is fairly common. Just trying to make sure.

Mother is doing somewhat better now, but still not awake. Been in icu for over 2 weeks now....But believe we'll see big improvements in the next few days.

My sister had this surgery on june 30, 2003. She spent her 45th birthday (august 25) in the cemetery. I am so against this type of surgery and am wanting to get word out against it. The doctor poked a hole in her intestines and she got an infection and they ignored her complaints and kept telling her it was gas and if she would just pass gas she would feel better. She gained about 160 pounds in 4 days from the i.V.'s they kept putting in her before they decided to go back in and find the problem. By that time it was to late. Please keep on top of the doctors and make them answer questions and keep asking questions. I hope and pray that your mother is okay and will keep checking back to see how she is doing. This was the fault of the doctor and my sister should have never died. She went through the surgery fine, it was the error on the doctors behalf. First for not checking the intestines to make sure there were no holes or leaks before closing her and second for not listening and believing her when she kept telling them something was wrong.

Jones; who was the surgeon and from where?

my mother had the same problem the thing was that when they opened her up to see what the problem was she had got a infection in her stomach the 3 timed they opened her the found out she had got the infection when they open her the 2 time and left her stomach open my mother layed in the hospital for 2 months with her stomach open and not waking up saddy to say my mother passed away I do not and would not ever advise anyone to ever go through with this sugery and ever have to go through what my family had to go through I hope your mother does ok best of wishes