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From: Kelly on 1 Aug 2008 00:05
Gentle hugs and wishes that they can finally get it right Nann! Glad Mike
got home when he did - you must have been scared on your own.

Good luck with the car and hopefully they will get all the tests scheduled,
done and reports back soon.

Kelly

"Nann Bell" <hanbellGOGATORS(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C4B7A4C200068980F0284550(a)news.east.earthlink.net...
> 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: MZB on 1 Aug 2008 01:36
Hey Nann-- where do you live in Michigan?

You mentioned Ann Arbor and Bay City. I am near Bay City

Mel
"Nann Bell" <hanbellGOGATORS(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C4B7A4C200068980F0284550(a)news.east.earthlink.net...
> 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 1 Aug 2008 02:31



Hey Mel, you are from Michigan? Well hello from another michigander!!!
I am in ann arbor! Nann is further north of bay city!

..
..
..
..

Donna
..
..
..
..
1.) ANGELS EXIST, but some times, since they don't all have wings, we
call them FRIENDS......


2.) J.K.M.A.

From: Nann Bell on 2 Aug 2008 15:54
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 1:36:23 -0400, MZB wrote
(in message <uhxkk.5507$LF2.4660(a)newsfe09.iad>):

> Hey Nann-- where do you live in Michigan?

We're in Hillman now. It's quite small, about 23 miles west of Alpena.
>
> You mentioned Ann Arbor and Bay City. I am near Bay City

Ah, I didn't realize that. We were in Bay City for a year after Mike
graduated from seminary while he fulfilled some other requirements to qualify
to become an Episcopal priest. It's a nice area, aside from the beat up
roads!

We had to travel to buy a quality subcompact! What the big 3 offer is so
inferior to the imports in that area.
--
Nann
remove the Gator cheer to email me
Change everything. Love & forgive.


From: Nann Bell on 3 Aug 2008 05:50
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 0:05:58 -0400, Kelly wrote
(in message <GYvkk.151300$gc5.124309(a)pd7urf2no>):

> Gentle hugs and wishes that they can finally get it right Nann! Glad Mike
> got home when he did - you must have been scared on your own.

Well, I wasn't too worried until tht last round of throwing up - except they
were woring on a water leak in front of our house and I as concerned our
water would be turned off in the middle of this! (and had filled the tub
accordingly). But mike went to take care of a couple of things just after
getting home and I found myself sending him signals to get back here! *He*
was greatly relieved he had come home Monday rather than staying downstate.
I assured him i would have called 911 if I'd been alone, but that certainly
would have gotten the telephone grapevine going!.
>
> Good luck with the car and hopefully they will get all the tests scheduled,
> done and reports back soon.

My mind is already wondering if we can pull any strings should i go to Ann
Arbor. Mike's ex graduated there and worked there for a while (she's an
excellent pathologist), and she still knows many people in U of M's medical
community. I wonder if she knows any of the GI folks..............

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