health issues

It is Thursday evening and today we were made aware of a pretty big setback in my pancreatic health.  I was supposed to have Gallbladder surgery today, but the surgeon came to my room with news that surgery was cancelled because the pancreas was still so enflamed.  Later in the day we met with two other doctors on my now 4 doctor team who also had news about what they want to do for treatment today, but the biggest reality set in when my Doc that initially diagnosed me came to talk to us about the CT scan.  He put it in layman’s terms that sunk in.  I have had Severe Pancreatitis and a large portion of the pancreas is dead.  The dead portion can be a breeding ground for infections and cause severe long-term effects or it can “heal” like a scar.  Either way it is much more serious and they want to make sure I do not get any infections.  The Drs. here are consulting with Virginia Mason tomorrow to see if it would be best to send me now or just watch and take over if there are any complications.

Friday, September 13th at about 11:30 I started having sharp shooting pains in my abdomen and by 1:30 I felt I needed to have Jacob take me to Kadlec ER. Getting back to the ER did not take as long as I have heard some say that it takes, but it was agonizing and the moaning began…I think I have a high pain tolerance, but there was just no end to this…I finally got placed on a stretcher in a hallway and was there for what seemed like an eternity…Again it wasn’t super long, but even the Morphemes they gave me didn’t take the edge off.  I got blood drawn, taken for an ultrasound and X-ray.  And then I heard the say,” She has pancreatitis and we are admitting her. “I wasn’t expecting that at all.  I thought they would give me some heavy drugs to get rid of the pressure aka calm down the “Heartburn & bloating.” Before I got pregnant I would often have these “episodes” that would wake me up in the middle of the night I would take an acid reliever and jump into the bathtub…the hot water running over me would distract and clam me….sometime I would drain most of the water and just fall asleep.  When I would go back to bed I would head for the corner of the couch or pile on the pillow stack. As the attacks happened more frequently I asked the PA (Physicians’ assistant) at my Doctor about it and she said it could be  GERD  or an ulcer and to start by avoiding certain foods in the evening, and that helped and we got pregnant with Aaron and I was eating really health  Post partum I started having symptoms again.