User blog comment:AverageHero/An Update On My Mom./@comment-1874924-20130721035508/@comment-4368235-20130721035756

The fluid buildup started after her first surgery, the one for her heart, and they assumed it wasn't something to worry about being the surgeon made drainage holes so that the fluid could empty itself out, but for some reason it started building up after the second surgery, her gall bladder surgery.