You really have been through the wringer. But I'm here to say that in my years of research, I have only read five or six stories that were like yours. I think it is extremely important to tell our pre-op members that this will not happen to them. I don't know exactly why you had a bleed after surgery but I would put the blame in the surgeon's hand. I can't believe that anyone could sew you up without detecting a bleed before stitching.
The rate of failure in bariatric surgery is something like .0 1%. It is just as ordinary as having your tonsils out, or at worst, having an appendectomy. It was much easier on my body than my hysterectomy and less painful then a whole bunch of other things I have suffered in my life. Maybe the best thing about it was that my knees stopped disintegrating. I had surgery on one and was going to have the other one done but I don't have any pain anymore.
If you are pre-op and have a lot of questions and a lot of fear about the outcome of the surgery. Please do not imagine that you will have an experience like Sunshine's. there were many other factors involved in her hospitalization. For 99.9% of us oh, it's an experience that we have and recovery ranges anywhere from a few days to a few months. You won't know what to expect because it's completely unfamiliar territory. If you read through the results that are written about in the 12000 posts that are archived here, you will not find stories like this. They are rare as hen's teeth.
Don't Be Afraid. Don't expect the worst. The procedures are so common now and so easily performed that most people who complain post- operatively are really talking about the gas and how painful it is for the gas to leave your body if you have a laparoscopic procedure.
I had an open procedure so, no gas. My recovery time it was about two weeks, but one week after surgery I attended a dinner party I had committed to attend. It was hard to find anything to put on my plate because I was in the liquid phase. But I was happy that I managed even to attend the social event and nobody asked me any questions because nobody there knew I had had surgery the week before.
It is common for sleeve people to feel pretty much all together within one day. Don't be scared. A nightmare like Sunshine experienced is beyond rare.