The Glade 4.0

I've been sick off and on since January...moderate to severe pain down my right side and across my stomach, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, which would last for a few days to a week or more, then I'd be back to normal for several weeks before it all started up again. I've seen my doctor 4 times about it. He changed my stomach meds and sent me to a gastro-enterologist who found ulcers, doubled my stomach meds and had me come back in September for another endoscopy, at which time he prescribed yet another stomach med and set up a return visit for yet another endoscopy. October and November I was back to normal, except for a nasty cold and conjunctivitis in both eyes.

Fast forward to last Monday...

I woke up with the pain in my side. Tuesday it was worse, Wednesday the same, Thursday was very bad...loss of appetite, and late afternoon Thursday the nausea and vomiting again. From Friday morning until 3AM Saturday, then from 3PM Saturday until 2:30AM Sunday I couldn't keep anything down. When I got up Sunday morning I called the hospital's advice number. The nurse set up a phone appointment with a doctor. After talking to me the doctor said she needed to exam me so she had me come in at 10:50. After the examination she was thinking appendicitis so she sent me to the lab for blood and urine tests and to radiology for a CT scan. I had to go back to the clinic to wait for another doctor to read the results. It was after 5PM before all the test results came in...after 6 hours at the clinic the good news is it's not appendicitis...bad news is it's pancreatitis and gall stones. Tomorrow I go for more lab tests and a follow-up with my doctor.

I've been on a clear liquid diet for two days, will probably have to be on it another day or two before I can start eating soft foods...

This really sucks!!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

I hope you start feeling better soon!

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In time, this too shall pass.

At least you know what you're dealing with now and it can be addressed! Hope you feel better Jasmy.

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

Hopefully they can get the gallstones out. Hope you feel better soon.

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Memento Vivere

I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

+1

/hugs Jasmy

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

A liquid diet does suck. I hope you get better.

Keeping you in my thoughts Jas

Feel better soon! Huggies

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"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky

/hugs

Hope you feel better soon.

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I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face and, the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil

Thanks for the well-wishes, everyone. Just got back from the lab and will see my doctor at noon. I've been feeling a little better the past couple of days, just really, really tired.

There is a silver lining to this dark cloud though. My son is coming home the 16th to the 20th. We are having an early Christmas. He and his dad were supposed to go to the Niners/Steelers game on the 19th but ticket prices were outrageous...one nosebleed seat was available for $250, better seats a bit lower were going for $350+ each!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Sorry to hear, Jasmy. Enjoy the time with your son, and I hope the treatment does the trick.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

/hugs

Best wishes Jasmy.

Weird.....my wife came home from work, and said one of her co-workers has a diseased gallbladder and has to have surgery in the morning. Must be the Moon.......or something.

Hope you have a safe surgery, and recoup soon.

God bless

Ugh, pancreatitis is no fun . Hope you get to feeling better soon, Jasmy!

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Women are from Hoboken, men are from Trenton. ~ Jimmy Kimmel

Small update...

Sunday my lab results for lipase (pancreas) was 1418. Today it was 447. My doctor wants to see me again in three weeks. He actually didn't seem to be too worried about the gall stones, he was more concerned about a very small benign nodule on my liver. He wants me to have another CT scan in four months.

Thanks again everyone for your wellwishes, hugs, and words of encouragement.

/group hug

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Sorry to hear that Jasmy, hope you get well soon )