Paul lived for 15 months after getting his whipple..The first 12 months he did great but the last 3 months he suffered because of mets to liver and lungs.

six years post op still experience acute stomach "gripping " pains no one can explain

Having this done at a High Volume center is very important to the outcome. I had an excellent experience. This saved my life

Painful, and had incision infection.

The surgery seemed to be an success. After the sugery He got out of the hospital in 9 days, still suffering of course. Since then his belly is recovering very slowly, he had an absest on the very left side of the shark like bite incision. They cut a 1 inch long insision to drain the absest, but they had to go 4 inches deep. It has been 2 months since the absest and almost 5 since the surgery. His wound is still leaking and his pain is only getting worse

so far its been a nightmare, infection after infection, pneumonia, leaking tubes....

it took my husband 2 months to recuperate, he felt totally horrible, and looked like a POW, he lost 50 pounds, and had not strength.

this procedure worked well for randy because they caught it early. it was exploratory surgery due to jaundice and bile duct stent not working.

the surgery took most my pancreas. What was left is pretty chewed up. High hopes that it will heal now with treatments and soon i won't have to take insulin and digestive enzymes to survive. Pain is all gone and eating like a horse. Gained most of my weight back and am working again. still have a ways to go to revover but it deffinately saved my life.

Pancreas was chewed up pretty bad. Was praticly on my death bed. Got the procedure done on emergency surgery. Removed over a third of my pancreas and part of my stomach. Also had all my bile ducts removed and reworked. Was a loooooong recovery but so far so good. Still have the CF problem but is being treated aggressively with new medications