Good morning. How are you?
Okay. You ready?
I feel so many emotions going.
It's. It's scary because my fate is in the doctor's hands right now.
Are you nervous?
A little bit. That's normal.
That's normal. You've done all you needed to do.
That's pretty awesome.
Do you have any questions for me?
Well, I get this over with right now.
We're taking you back right now.
Okay. If we don't do surgery, her chances of living much longer than five years or
probably approaching close to zero.
But she's definitely going to be challenging, there's no doubt about it.
The actual surgery time should be about an hour and a half.
But if there are complications, it could be longer than that.
There are real risks, risk of bleeding, risk of leaks, risk of death and everything in
between. And we have to accept those risks.
All right. Trocar, please.
All right, I'll take the livery tractor.
I'm hoping everything goes smooth, you know, no food bars.
It's a big word for you.
I know.
I'm bringing out the big words today because I'm nervous.
You know, my surgery was drastic.
You know, they cut 30% of my stomach out.
They're removing 80% of her stomach and removing 30% of her small intestine.
Tammy's procedure was designed for patients that are typically non-compliant.
Not only is the sleeve going to help to control the amount of food she eats, they
remove the first 8 or 10in of her small intestines, which with that being removed,
she's not going to absorb as much of the food that she eats.
Tammy's surgery is a whole lot more extreme than mine.
So, you know, that's in itself a whole lot more nerve wracking.
When you sit and you think about like, oh, the possibilities of what could go wrong.
And when you think of how serious her health is, like how the condition of her health and
how serious those conditions are.
I don't know what I'd do without my Aunt Tammy.
I don't know. I don't know what I'd do either.
I miss. It's nerve wracking, the whole damn situation.
Just sitting here having to wait.
Hurry up and wait.
Got it. Hey, y'all.
Hey, What's up? Nothing.
Let him go. He's all right.
Come here, monkey.
Where are you going? He goes.
You're silly. We haven't heard nothing yet.
Well, we knew it was going to take time.
I know. I'm just not virtuous.
Know I'm not a patient person.
I'm not.
Either.
It'd be nice if we could tell the future and know everything was going to be all right.
You know, we've been waiting on Dr.
Smith to come in for two hours.
Dr. Smith said it would take an hour and a half to do the surgery.
I'm starting to wonder if he had some kind of complications.
You got that little thought in the back of your head.
Well, what's going on?
Because he said he should be out of there by now.
Now she's in Dr.
Smith's and God's hands.
All done. She did.
Awesome. Cool.
She did great. She did.
She did really well.
Wonderful.
Wonderful. Didn't have any problems.
Everything looked great.
Just like we want it to go.
When Dr. Smith comes in and tells us everything went fine, you just feel a sense
of relief.
It's kind of like having a hold a pee for about 45 minutes and you're about to piss
your pants and you finally get to the bathroom and it's like, Oh, yeah.
Yeah. So everything went great.
Honestly, the only reason it took a little bit longer is because she had kind of a
change in her anatomy where her small bowel and colon were kind of stuck in her pelvis
and her small bowel kind of came out from behind the colon.
We really kind of had to work probably 20, 25 minutes of just making sure our
measurements were good based on how our anatomy was.
And then we just cruised with the procedure.
Honestly, I'm not surprised.
There was a small complication with Tammy's anatomy because there is not a damn thing
about Tammy.
That's not complicated.
Any questions for me?
No, but I think we need to let the rest of them know.
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Hello.
Hey, the doctor just come in and let us know.
I'll tell him he was doing and she come to it just good.
Gage and Tammy's. Okay.
No complications.
No complications?
No, she did great. She did really well.
She's made it like.
Thank you, dear baby Jesus.
She has finally made it.
She really did the damn thing.
I'm so proud of her.
And she recovering. Okay.
Yeah.
So she's. She's in the recovery room right now.
They'll keep her back there for about 45 minutes.
And then when she gets to her room, then that's when we'll at least try to get some of
you guys back there so you can see her.
And then I'll obviously be checking on her a little bit later when she's more awake, too.
Okay. Sounds good.
Okay.
You guys take care. All right?
You too, hun. Thank you.
All right. All right.
Bye Bye Bye.
Dr. Smith. Thank you.
Tammy's life today.
He might not have a cape, but he's a superhero.
Yes, he really is.
I feel really great that Tammy made it through surgery.
Okay. I'm just really proud of her.
You know, I hope she didn't do like I did and eat a honey bun right after surgery.
Yeah, I know.
You're lucky. I wouldn't even. I wasn't down there.
I would have punched you right in your forehead, like pop.
Don't get the munchies, bitch.
So I got to say.
All right. She's right in here.
They him?
And. Funky.
Huh? Funky.
Why? You look funky.
Yeah. So, what's up, Funky?
Man, You know, I'll take that one this time.
Next time you get ass whooping.
But it's okay. I'll take it this round.
You feeling all right, baby?
I'll be part of it for a minute.
They'll get it under control.
All right. Oh, baby, that's another dead.
Start walking.
One and just start walking.
And they'll take care of a lot of issues.
Trust me. Walk.
Seeing Tammy alive after surgery.
Joking and cutting up is a blessing.
Because actually, it's a miracle.
Today she got a new life.
We just wanted to check in.
All right.
All right, girl. All right.
Check back on you in a couple hours.
Take care, baby.
All right. I'll come check on you later when you get to your room, okay?
Okay.
You know, Tammy's not completely out of the woods yet.
I mean, yeah, she's successfully had the surgery, but the next 14 days is going to be
a slow recovery.
And then she's had to relearn how to eat everything.
So, I mean, if she don't listen to what the doctor has to say, it could cause a whole lot
more. Everything the doctor just did could be undone.