My Progress

Nov 01, 2010

8/18/10 Wednesday - Surgery date - 255
8.19  Leak test ok
8.20  Came home – did too much. Did laundry, took care of my kid.

8.22  Started to run fever Sun night
8.23  By Mon morning tons of pain when sipping. Pain is so bad I about stop breathing by the time the EMT’s arrive.
8.23  Re-admitted to the hospital
8.24  PIC line in place for nutrition, nothing by mouth!

lots of tests - ct scans
lots of swelling and pain in the left abdomen - leak! 8.27  A drain is installed in my abdomen.  The fluid that comes out is unbelievable in volume and in content (It is bile after all). I am swollen in my left breast down to my left hip. 8.30  Upper GI shows leak 9.01  Drain slows by volume 9.02  Elect for 2^nd surgery to repair leak 9.03  Drain is removed. Ouch!! Upper GI shows 2^nd leak. 9.07  Upper GI shows leak still active 9.08  New PIC line is installed 9.11  Upper GI – leak is healed! 9.12  Given first stage food, not tolerating well, as to be expected when I had no food or drink for 3 weeks 9.13  Go home!  Eat mashed potatoes & cream of wheat & drink milk. It is so hard to get used to food again. 9.19  Eat baby food peaches 9.27  ** 228 **

10.05  Massive candida – white tongue and sore hind end. Got prescription and probiotics. Tummy pain is regular so I try Prevacid – it helps. I have fatigue. Can’t do much without getting very tired. 10.10  Eating chicken, pork and ground beef 10.25  Eating is going well. Getting constipated. Spent a work week out of town and ate out every meal. Hard to comprehend the amount of food I left on the plate at each meal. I ordered one egg and six blueberries on morning and couldn’t finish it all! 11.01 ** 217 ** This is the first year in a long time I weigh less on Nov 1^st than I did Oct 1st. My energy is picking up !

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