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My mother had an umbilical hernia repair that is the one that should serve as a warning of the worst-case surgical risks.
To be fair, her protrusion was quite huge ... about the size of a softball, or possibly even a good sized cantelope. The size of it, my mother's advanced age, and her poor cardiac condition put her at risk, but the benefits of the surgery were thought to outweigh that ...
Yeah, right.
The surgeon screwed up somewhere along the way, perforated her colon, realized it, and stitched things back up ...
Unfortunately my mother ended up with multiple infections as a consequence of this ... including E. Coli and Staph. She returend to the hospital for an extra 16 days of IV antibiotic treatment.
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