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From: Nann Bell on 31 Jul 2008 17:20 Well, my latest upset stomach doubled back on me again Monday. Mike had been out of town and came home to me lying on the floor after throwing up for the 5th time in 4 hours (It was mostly dry heaves by then, of course.) As the energy to get up from the floor failed to return to me, it became apparent it was time for the hospital. Of course, the nearest ER is 25 miles away. I think Mike was driving faster than his recent gas-saving pace on the way in! He's seen me through enough to know I don't go to the ER for casual reasons. I was set free early this afternoon. The CT they did from the ER indicated a small bowel obstruction. By the time they did more detailed studies 12 hours later, the obstruction had cleared, but there was evidence of small bowel inflammation, esp. where it meets the large intestine. This is all beginning to sound very familiar! I was being treated by the surgeon who was on call for the practice our PCP is, so at this point I explained the whole rigamarole of testing i went through last eyar. He thinks we definitely need to biopsy this spot near the end of the small bowel and sometimes they can do it via a colonoscopy. That's ok - I'm 51 and really should be starting that anyway. If he can't get the scope to co-operate with my anatomy enough, they have some new procedure at U of M in Ann Arbor called double balloon enteroscopy that lets they work a scope through the small bowel to check things out and get samples if needed. They'll get me on the waiting list for that if the colonsocopy doesn't do the trick. Either way, I have a feeling the biopsy will, once again, come back "non-specific inflammation". sigh.................. At this point we can't be sure if the nausea & vomiting is inflammation related or if I also have some small bowel obstruction, maybe related to scar tissue & adhesions from my hysterectomy back in '99. I guess we're off on another round of testing, but we both are enormously relieved that I don't need surgery at this point! The doc says "you definitely have something going on" and does seem to feel that this is related to all the upset stomachs I've had the past few years. Ironically, last week's round was bad enough that I'd planned a serious discussion with my PCP about it at next month's physical but my body wouldn't wait that long. He had me off my Voltaren in the hospital because of the GI side effects. I only missed it a bit until this morning! Many joints were hurting this morning and my thumbs were screaming - I had to choose my meals based on what was easy for my hands! Fortunately, he said I can go back to it for now. As soon as i got home I took some along with tylenol & tramadol to get my handss functioning. That's important because..... Mike got the call this morning that our new car is in down in Bay City - a good 2 weeks earlier than expected! (a Honda Fit, replacing our '89 Corolla that died last Jan.) We both want to pick it up tomorrow, but that means me driving our van the 120 miles back - something I could NOT have done this morning. So that was a nice bit of good news to finish off an unpleasant week. -- Nann remove the Gator cheer to email me Change everything. Love & forgive.
From: Donna G. on 31 Jul 2008 18:11 WOW, Nann, I am so sorry you have had to endure so much this past week. Sounds absolutely miserable!!! Glad you are now home and out of the hospital, but do hope you'll take it a bit easy and not over do it too soon! I pray that the next round of testing can come up with something more definitive for you so you don't have to keep going through all of this. It may be worth asking again about having your immunoglobulins checked to make sure you don't have the immune-deficiency problems like I have developed. Just a thought. Keep us posted as to how things come along! In my prayers and thoughts!!! .. .. .. .. Donna .. .. .. .. 1.) ANGELS EXIST, but some times, since they don't all have wings, we call them FRIENDS...... 2.) J.K.M.A.
From: Di on 31 Jul 2008 21:18 In article <0001HW.C4B7A4C200068980F0284550(a)news.east.earthlink.net>, hanbellGOGATORS(a)earthlink.net says... > .................snip............... Mike got the call this > morning that our new car is in down in Bay City - a good 2 weeks earlier than > expected! (a Honda Fit, replacing our '89 Corolla that died last Jan.) We > both want to pick it up tomorrow, but that means me driving our van the 120 > miles back - something I could NOT have done this morning. So that was a > nice bit of good news to finish off an unpleasant week. > > Sheesh, Nann, that all sounds like pure misery making. Keeping my fingers crossed that you'll figure all this out, and not need surgery. Enjoy your new car. And, the trip. -- Di zinkadoodle at gmail dot com www.dustydogdigital.com
From: Nann Bell on 31 Jul 2008 22:46 On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:11:58 -0400, Donna G. wrote (in message <16875-489238AE-634(a)storefull-3112.bay.webtv.net>): > WOW, Nann, I am so sorry you have had to endure so much this past week. > Sounds absolutely miserable!!! Glad you are now home and out of the > hospital, but do hope you'll take it a bit easy and not over do it too > soon! > And that was before I found out how badly I'd bruised from this morning's heparin shot. Just about everyone there gets it because the hospital is so small even the ambulatory patients can only walk so far! I had four shots of the damn stuff and my lower belly looks like I was in a bar fight. I'm having a time keeping our affectionate kitty away from it! I think I'll wear a loose fitting dress tomorrow, shorts were rather painful by the end of the day. And I have to reschedule my eagerly awaited podiatrist appointment from last Tuesday! i am so ready to get rid of these bunions the PsA gave me 22 years ago. I put it off last year for this mystery crud, I'm not doing so again unless forced to! -- Nann remove the Gator cheer to email me Change everything. Love & forgive.
From: Diane on 31 Jul 2008 23:58
aww, nann, i had so hoped you were done with this tummy stuff. i hope they're able to get to the root of it this time. i feel for you. it sounds so miserable, and living with the mystery is never fun. thinking of you, diane |