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Kid is sick

eloisel

eloisel

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MamaKitty went back in the hospital at 3:30 a.m. Monday morning - problems with her pancreas causing lots of pain. Edema, inflammation, an unidentified mass, possibly a left over stone from when her gall bladder was removed. She's on the good drugs so she is feeling better. An MRI is scheduled for tomorrow, after that another ESU, and surgery after that.

So, if you don't see her for awhile, it isn't that she doesn't love you. Actually, she doesn't, but she does like you. Why, I don't know. You just have to accept the fact that she does.

Anyway, I'm home to do a little laundry, shower, pack a bag, get some non-hospital food to eat, then I'm going back to the hospital.

Later
e
 
One of them is really cute. Problem is he looks like a younger version of my dad, her grandfather.
 
eloisel said:
MamaKitty went back in the hospital at 3:30 a.m. Monday morning - problems with her pancreas causing lots of pain. Edema, inflammation, an unidentified mass, possibly a left over stone from when her gall bladder was removed. She's on the good drugs so she is feeling better. An MRI is scheduled for tomorrow, after that another ESU, and surgery after that.

So, if you don't see her for awhile, it isn't that she doesn't love you. Actually, she doesn't, but she does like you. Why, I don't know. You just have to accept the fact that she does.

Anyway, I'm home to do a little laundry, shower, pack a bag, get some non-hospital food to eat, then I'm going back to the hospital.

Later
e
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My prayers and best wishes are with you both. I know *exactly* what she's going thru...my pancreas/bile duct problems aren't over, either.

Tell her to PM me here, if she likes. Better yet, let me PM you my email address.
 
Damn, her gall bladder removed, now her pancreas?

I'm sorry wheezie, at least it's comforting to know she's in good hands.

Many blessings to your daughter.
 
Hi there,

I wanted to let everyone know that I am home.
I was released yesterday for good behavior.. After being on a liquid diet and then the threat of actual I knew it was time to go..
Actually they did let me have eggs, bacon and a biscuit before I left.
I know that hospital's food it horrid. but not being allowed to eat Monday, and then on a liquid diet from Tuesday to Wednesday, Thursdays breakfast was the most awesome meal ever.
I have a follow up appointment on Thursday so I can release to go back to work on the 16th. I cant wait..

I am doing better, still a little pain, but that is to be expected.

I have to quite drinking all together. That fucking sucks.

Thank you all for your well wishes. You guys are awesome.
I am going to go do my drugs now and pass out.

MK
 
I know this is long, this is what I posted on my journals. I am a little loopy so forgive me

So I guess I need to let everyone know what happened..

As you know I had two graduations and a BBQ from Friday to Sunday..
The pain started on Friday at my sister in laws graduation.
It was in my tummy, right at the belly button. I was thinking maybe the way my pants were sitting or maybe even my bra was to tight so I did not think of it.
I came home took a couple of non-aspirin and went to bed.

I woke up Saturday morning and I was still having pain, I ran a couple of errands then went to my step brother's graduation,
By the time we got there my tummy up to my chest and back were killing me. Game home, took a couple more non-aspirin and it did not help.

Sunday morning I got up to go to the BBQ my dad was having for my step brother. I was in so much pain I was thinking about not going, but I wanted to spend time with my dad and step family.
I am glad I did, I love my step mother and the kids. I got to meet some friends of the family. It was nice.
The thing is I was hurting so bad, I was able to eat a little but the food did not help at all. No my dad is a good cook, so it was not his cooking..
I took about 6 non-aspirin though out the time I was there. Non of them phased the pain I was having,,
All day Sunday I was thinking maybe this is just gas, I was wishing I could just fart and I would be ok.
But I didn't.

By the time I left, the spasms were so bad that I had to ask tony to do a few things for me so I could be ready to go to work on Monday.
I took one of my higher hydrocodones and laid down, The hydrocodone did nothing. I woke up at 3 am feeling like I was having a heart attack.
Another good thing about sharing a home with my mother. After getting up I decided I needed to go to the hospital.
I walked into her room in tears and spazzing all over and told her that I needed to go to the hospital right now. I told her about how bad the pain was.
Normally mom is like take an aspirin and go back to bed you will be ok. but mother's instincts new I was right and she got right up.
She took a shower and during that time I got dressed, checked the symptoms of a heart attack and then posted in my journals about going to the hospital.

Thankfully the hospital is right down the road from my house. We were at the ER in about 2 mins. I walked in and they were on asap.
They made me drink that awful dye stuff so they could do the cat scan. After the cat scan I was told that I was going to be admitted,
You know it's bad when they admit you.

The hospital was full when I was admitted so I spent most of Monday in one of the ER rooms waiting for my room to be ready.
I think it was 5:30 - 6:30 when I got into my room. I think it was dark outside. By this time I was so doped up and out of it, I don't really remember.
I was rolled from the bed in the ER since I could not get into the wheelchair. I was so out of it. They were afraid that I would fall out of the bed and tear out the IV needle that was in my hand.
They had me on a high risk for falling due to the drugs.
I know that some where in the time I was in the ER that my primary doctor (Dr Gaydoes) and my GI doctor (Dr Stien) showed up and talked to me a not.
They had me on pain meds (Dilaudid) antibiotics and a liquid drip with potassium, sugar and something else to keep me hydrated, seems I was very dehydrated.
The Diaudid was awesome. within seconds of them putting it into the IV in my hand I was a happy not caring about the pain girl. they asked me to lay down and all I could do was sit there and be woozy. The ER nurse had to help me lay down. The spasms started again, so they gave me a bag of ice to hug.. That helped a lot.
I was extremely happy to see Dr Gaydoes, I know that there are times that her and I do not see eye to eye, but I knew that I was going to be taken care of when she told me that she was going to be my dr while I was there. She was there every day to check on me. I have to send her a thank you card.
Dr Stien came in and was there for a minute or two and then was gone. That pissed me of. I wished he was there longer so I could have asked him what was going on.
He came in while Tony was there, mom had gone home to take a shower and take care of somethings.

During the time I was in the hospital I was left along maybe 30 mins. Mom stayed the night in a chair that pulls out in a bed with me every night. Tony would come and stay with me while mom when home. Mom missed work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to stay with me so she could be there for me, to help me and to talk to the doctors since I was out of it 90% of the time.
My cousin Denise came by to help out mom on Tuesday. It was great seeing her, she brought me a wind and the willows coloring book and some crayons to keep me busy.
My cousin is one of the most awesome, caring a way to sweet people you could ever meet. Tony, Denise and I played Uno for a bit, but my doctors gave me more pain meds so after the third round I stared being out of it. I think they let me win two of those rounds. After 9pm Denise went home. I am so happy that she showed up. It's good to have people like her in my life.
I need to do something special for her and her husband one of these days.
My cousin in the one that got me the Carmina Burana CD when I was 13 or 14. She is the only person in my family that accepts me for who I am (besides my mother) and loves me for the person that I am.She has never given me any problems about anything I have done or my weight.

Monday I was not allowed to eat or drink anything. That sucked. Tuesday morning they let me have some ice for breakfast and lunch. After lunch they let me have clear liquids.
So I got me cup of tea. At dinner they brought me some chicken broth, jello (which I did not touch) tea, apple juice and a lemon Italian ice.
That was the same for Wednesday all day. If I have broth any time soon, I will scream!! I don't want to see it anytime soon.

They had to move the IV from my right hand to some other spot. My poor nurse (Brenda) remembered what I told her about the catheters and my veins, but tried to put a normal 20 gage catheter in my arm which ended up busting the vein, now I have lovely bruise on my right arm. She then got one of the smaller baby ones and put it into my other arm.
I tell you I look like a needle junkie that went on a binge this weekend. My arms are all marked up from the blood they took, the IV needles and some of the nausea medications that they have to give me. My but also look like it was used as a pin cushion.
Not to mention all the tape residue on my arms that I am having a hell of a time trying to get off.

I need to remember that the next time (hopefully there will not be a next time) I am in the hospital for a vacation that I need to have someone bring me shampoo and soap. They stuff they have in the shower sucked. I was so happy to take a real shower and was able to wash my hair Thursday it was unbelievable. And the towels were rough, It was like have a million kittens licking me dry.
It was bad because I was a high risk of falling so my mother had to stand outside of the shower to make sure I did not fall and she had to help dry me off with those towels. More props for mom taking care of me.. Maybe I need to make suggestion to the hospital to put softener in the towels. I had to have mom and Tony help me when I went to the bath room. With the IV in my hand I could not pull down my own pants.. (I do love the hospital panties, those are hot.. I should have asked for a pack! I think if I get better at knitting I am going to make me a few pair)
Mom brought me some cloths to sleep in while I was at the hospital so I was more comfortable, the gown made me feel to exposed (this coming from a nudest)

Ok, enough babbling, I bet your wondering what happened?

Well it was my pancreas. After the cat scan came back, it showed that my pancreas has swollen and was not looking good at all.
They did a MIR on Wednesday and it showed the same thing. They saw the tumor, that is not what caused the swelling. The tumor is ok.
When they tested my urine they did find a lot of white blood cells and my blood test also showed my white blood cells were going crazy.
But it was not cancer.

They talked to me about surgery if it was needed at the time, that they might be able to remove that tumor or remove the pancreas all together.
I will not let them take my pancreas. Dr. Lyons says I can live with out it. But I argued with him. I just do not want to have to deal with that,
There are to many things that I need to do first.

I do know that until my pancreas is under control, I will not be able to have the weight loss surgery.

Per Dr Lyons, Dr Gaydoes and the nutritionist that I talked to, I am going to have to change my diet to 40 grams or less of eating and give up drinking all together.
Yup, thats right, no more drinking for me. It's literately going to kill me. Not cool.
So utri will be my last weekend of binge drinking.

There are some serious scars on my pancreas from all the drinking and from my wild drug days.
While I do not do the drugs anymore, I do drink a lot when I do go camping. That will have to stop. No I am not happy about it.

I have done good.
Things I have given up.

Soda. over 3 weeks now.
Salt & Pepper
Fried foods
greasy foods.
sauces and gravies
And some other things I can not think of.


I am ok now. I am still in a little pain, but I have some meds here to help out.
I am on bed rest until the 16th when I can go back to work depending on what my doctor says next Thursday.

I am sorry for the babbling if you read all of this and sorry for the miss spelling.

Thank you all for your well wishes, the phone calls and to those that came to the hospital to visit me.

I really do appreciate it. You are all the best medication that I could ever need,
 
MamaKitty, I can SOOO empathize with you! I'm glad you're feeling better. Not being able to drink anymore sucks. But you can do it. Getting drunk is not worth endangering your life.

I must admit to having problems staying on a low fat diet. I just can't do it, but I have reduced my fat intake from what it used to be.

I hear you about the liquid diet. I wasn't allowed anything by mouth for 7 days. When they finally did allow me to have an all liquid meal, you would have thought I was eating filet mignon. Chicken broth and Italian ice never tasted so delicious.

I had an ERCP done in April. It took care of things for awhile, but now I'm beginning to feel pain again. The doctor thinks the cut he made in my sphincter is starting to narrow, thus blocking my bile flow again. I'm having another one done in July. But I guess everything will be okay, eventually.

The worst, and I'm sure it was for you, too, was thinking it was cancer. I am happy that isn't the case for you. Can one live without a pancreas?

I am thankful that the hospital I'm having these procedures done is Duke, the same one Sen. Kennedy had his brain surgery in. It's one of the best in the nation. It is a teaching hospital, tho, so there are a lot of doctors and such coming in and out (until I yelled at them. Then they were afraid to come in. :D )

Just take it slow. Stay in bed and let your body heal. Hopefully, you'll be back to your daily routine soon.

Take care. :)
 
Friday said:
MamaKitty, I can SOOO empathize with you! I'm glad you're feeling better. Not being able to drink anymore sucks. But you can do it. Getting drunk is not worth endangering your life.
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It really sucks though, I have a lot of stuff in my fridge that I am not going to have to find a home for. I don't want to give up the Rum dammit!
Or the white Russians! It's hard, mom is telling all of my friends that it will kill me if I drink anymore. So no one is going to let me drink.. SOB!

Friday said:
Friday said:
I must admit to having problems staying on a low fat diet. I just can't do it, but I have reduced my fat intake from what it used to be.
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I have to reduce my to 40 grams of fat. Suck.. But I have bought some books and have been doing so research at places I like to eat and finding that there are some things that I can eat. I get to keep my taco's at taco bell. I can only eat two anyway. But there are like 17 grams of fat. And I love cereal, but I am going to have to change to skim milk. Yuck! Yay corn pops being 0 grams of fat!

Friday said:
I hear you about the liquid diet. I wasn't allowed anything by mouth for 7 days. When they finally did allow me to have an all liquid meal, you would have thought I was eating filet mignon. Chicken broth and Italian ice never tasted so delicious.
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I love the Italian Ice, but if I see Chicken Broth again any time soon, I am going to scream!

Friday said:
I had an ERCP done in April. It took care of things for awhile, but now I'm beginning to feel pain again. The doctor thinks the cut he made in my sphincter is starting to narrow, thus blocking my bile flow again. I'm having another one done in July. But I guess everything will be okay, eventually.
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Ouch, I have not had anything like that done yet and hope i dont have to.
That sounds incredible painful.

Friday said:
The worst, and I'm sure it was for you, too, was thinking it was cancer. I am happy that isn't the case for you. Can one live without a pancreas?
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Dr Lyons said that I could live with out the Pancreas, but that would mean that I would be on more drugs. I have heard where people have had a new pancreas made or have been given a new pancreas, but I want mine to stay where it is and not to hurt anymore.

And yeah, the talk about the cancer scares the living shit out of me.

Friday said:
I am thankful that the hospital I'm having these procedures done is Duke, the same one Sen. Kennedy had his brain surgery in. It's one of the best in the nation. It is a teaching hospital, tho, so there are a lot of doctors and such coming in and out (until I yelled at them. Then they were afraid to come in. :D )
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Oh man, It was bad where they were coming in every hour, but if it was more then one person, they would get a dose of me which depending on if they were cute I would flirt of if not I would scream.


Friday said:
Just take it slow. Stay in bed and let your body heal. Hopefully, you'll be back to your daily routine soon.

Take care. :)
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I have been good, my husband had been taking care of me and making sure I am comfy and provided for. It's kind of freaky..

You take care to..
MK
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Kid is home. Kid is better. Kid is wearing me out, "Mama, bring me something to drink... bring me something to eat .... help me this, help me that." That's ok. I'm flying up north Wednesday for a conference. Suddenly, listening to someone talk about electronic discovery for two days sounds good.

Thanks for giving the kid the well wishes and such.
 
I give capitalism 20 years until it fully collapses. Karl Marx will be laughing in his grave.

Unlike the two major crises in modern history, the next one will be global, and there would be no revival after it. With no other regime of capital accumulation in the horizon, what will happen in the not-so-near future will pretty much be the end of the world.
 
eloisel said:
Kid is home. Kid is better. Kid is wearing me out, "Mama, bring me something to drink... bring me something to eat .... help me this, help me that." That's ok. I'm flying up north Wednesday for a conference. Suddenly, listening to someone talk about electronic discovery for two days sounds good.

Thanks for giving the kid the well wishes and such.
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Oh mom, you know that you loved every minute that I was dependent on you.
You were in control again and I was 1 taking my first steps again. Did not help that I was in the baby ward.
 
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