Recently my mother had surgery to remove cancer from her right lung. The day
after the surgery she was sitting up and conversing with relatives. Two days
later an infection in the middle lobe caused her to have respiratory arrest.
Emergency surgery was done, the middle lobe was removed. The doctors
explained that the middle lobe became gangrenous due to a lack of blood. The
lung had torqued or was twisted. This was several months ago, my mother has
been in ICU since. I have not been able to determine if the complications
from the surgery is common or exactly what did go wrong. Has anybody had a
similar experience? To complicate things more, the pre-op CTScan was
negative, but while examining the middle lobe after the second surgery the
pathologists found several small tumors. The doctors explained had they
known the cancer had spread surgery would not have been an option.
Murray Davis
MurrayD@HACSC.org
408 993 2914
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