The woman has experienced incredible suffering for three months.

A woman in Crete experienced a nightmare after they forgot a gauze in her after a caesarean section.

Specifically, according to neakriti.gr, instead of rejoicing over the birth of her second child, an unexpected incident after the cesarean section almost cost her her life.

A piece of gauze was left inside the woman’s body from the caesarean section at a private facility, which left her with abdominal discomfort and a fever for three months, and doctors could not understand what was going on.

In fact, she was given an antibiotic, which of course did not work, while after three months she had a CT scan, and the diagnosis was bad, as both the small and large intestine, as she tells neakriti.gr, had suffered a perforation.

The woman was transferred to PAGNI, where she is being treated with an anastomosis in the small intestine and a stoma in the large intestine. To restore the resection, another surgery will be needed to reattach the colon and make it work again.

However, the woman’s adventure, as told on neakriti.gr, is harrowing when, as she says, if she had delayed a little longer – she remembers that three months had passed since the caesarean section and the moment the gauze was placed and remained on the body her – it would be too late!

The version of the private doctor who visited her talked about a hemostatic gauze or sponge that was not absorbed by the body and how it would be easy to pull it out of her body laparoscopically.

But when she herself, according to her words, went for a pre-operative examination and got in touch with a general surgeon, at the suggestion of both the doctors at PAGNI and the private practitioner who treated her, she realized that things were more difficult than ‘so much as they were valued, and how her life was in danger.

Then the time came for him to be transferred to PAGNI, where the first operation had to be done, the gauze removed, then an anastomosis in the small intestine and a stoma in the large intestine and at some point the doctors indicated, at least for another 8 weeks, that will say plus two months of suffering, to be followed by the next operation for full recovery.

What she said about her adventure

According to the woman from Heraklion, it all started after a caesarean section she had in October at a private clinic in Heraklion.

“I started having discomfort in my abdomen. For the first few days after leaving the delivery room I had a constant ten and about ten days after I got home I had a fever of 39-40. I spoke to the doctor and was given an antibiotic.

For the last month, I had pain accompanied by tithe,” said the patient, who continued the narration of the events: “I went to a doctor and started a check-up, where it was found that there is an inflammation somewhere.

The internist was alarmed by the abdominal pain, labs and tithing and ordered an ultrasound, which was repeated. Because the image showed inflammation in a part of the intestine that was not specified, he sent me for a CT scan the Monday before.”

After the ultrasound, the woman underwent a CT scan, and the results left operators and doctors speechless.

In particular, as he mentioned, “the x-ray was done twice (morning and noon) because the photographers could not believe their eyes.

On the second imaging, they confirmed that the foreign body is outside the intestine and that it is gauze.”

Immediately after locating the gauze outside and touching the bowel, the woman, she says, contacted the obstetrician and visited him in the maternity ward, where he took an X-ray “and they saw the foreign body there too,” she says. and continues:

“They told me to go home and they would contact me about when they wanted me to take it off and claimed it was a hemostatic gauze or sponge that needed to dissolve and didn’t absorb.

On Tuesday, one day after the x-ray, I spoke to the obstetrician in the morning and he said that I should go on Thursday for pre-op and come in on Friday morning to have it removed laparoscopically, and on Saturday I would go home.

Meanwhile, the CT scan came, which showed that the colon and small intestine have eroded and created a communication between them. I contacted the obstetrician again who reassured me that a surgeon would be coming but also that things couldn’t be as bad as they looked and that they could handle it and there was nothing to worry about.

Tuesday night he referred me to a general surgeon who would be in the operating room on Friday and couldn’t understand how the x-ray could look like that and I could stand up straight.

But he told me that in the event that the x-ray is valid, then under no circumstances could he go into surgery if we don’t fix it, and asked me to do a colonoscopy.”

“Wednesday morning I was transferred with all my tests to PAGNI, where he was on duty, where the tests were evaluated by the CT department and general surgery department, and it was decided by the attending doctor that I needed emergency surgery because this gauze had actually pierced the large intestine and had created two holes a minute I went in on Wednesday the small intestine was anastomosed while the large was partially cut out and out into a stoma which will last at least 8 weeks then another operation to attach gut again.

If the operation had not been carried out immediately, in any delay I would not have had time to come”, concludes the young mother, who has already suffered for three months and apparently still has at least two more to recover, because she was simply forgotten in her body, during caesarean section, a gauze.