Sorry about long absence

Sep 06, 2010

I honestly have crawled into a hidy hole because I was still having issues with recovery and getting a lot of negative posts/feedback (and positive, I can't lie, but the negative was hard to read every day).

But I can't ask people to care, and get involved (even if only emotionally) and then leave them in the lurch, that is irresposible and cruel.

So, my apologies for reverting to hermit like behavior, and here is the update.

After my dramatic surgery donated by the wonderful Dr. Provost, about 3 weeks post surgery I started nausea and vomiting again. He tried in vain to treat me with round-the-clock anti-nausea medicines but I ended up in the emergency room so dehydrated that they said my kidneys were on the verge of shutting down!

This time, Dr. Provost was very aggressive, making sure I got fluids, but also electrolytes AND TPN nutrition - IV nutrition - which up until now, in ALL my hospital visits, no doctor had ever ordered even though I asked. He consulted with a gastroentologist who did an EGD. They diagnosed another stricture - and placed two stints (plastic tubes) in my stomach (or what's left of it) to hold it open for a few weeks and hopefully - oh please oh please - when they are removed my damn stomach will STAY open.

The stents in aren't like my favorite feeling (I do randomly gag and puke but NOTHING close to what I was suffering), I get hearburn like crazy despite taking meds for it, but I've eaten more food and kept it down over the past few weeks than the past few months! I can feel myself getting stronger.

Next week or so I get the stents removed. Good luck to me.

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