Headed home

By the time I saw nurse in ER, my fever had broke and pain was managed with meds. I got a bag of saline in me at warp speed and will follow up with VM Docs on Monday. Blood looked fine...pancreatic enzymes were normal yeah! I was definitely dehydrated. I am already taking an antibiotic so I just need to continue with that...and stay ahead of pain...thank you for the prayers!!

Back at ER

This week I have been getting used to the drain...localized pain, but the drain not having much output. This morning I woke up in extreme pain and then this afternoon I had a fever...so we went back to ER...hopefully bloodwork will show something easy and we can go home tonight...praying I don't have a medstar flight tonight...

Free

We are on our way home!!! Thanks for all your prayers...keep them coming because movement is really slow and when pain hits, it is really painful. Praying that the incision continues to heal and that twisting motion becomes easier!  ...cause golf season is coming soon and I want to be able to roll around and chase Aaron. We have learned so much more about the drains and the docs are hopeful that the drains will work great...but the fluid is more like sludge so it may take longer to go through the tube and we may have to have a different tube put in a few weeks from now...not abnormal for the dual drain setup.

Resting in my room

Things went well this evening. I am chilling on the 15th floor now....eating my clear liquids.  The outer drain is painful when I move and other than the sore throat, I don't think I am feeling the inside drain.  I am able to walk on my own...I feel the drain bag on my leg...it is big....cleaning it seems much easier than I was anticipating but we'll  see what tomorrow brings. Goodnight all.

Delay of game...

We checked in, got the ID bracelets, the lovely gown and socks, the monitors on the iv stuff ready to go...then we hit the first roadblock...trouble getting it in...so now two holes in hand that burn...met the anesthesiologist...and things almost stopped...first they are worried about my lungs so I got a neb treatment...then got the wonderful news that one of my procedures did not get scheduled...and they could get me in this afternoon, tomorrow, or reschedule....long story short...outer drain goes in at 12:30 and inside drain at 4pm...so the fasting I did this morning...continues...and Jacob got free breakfast for the inconvenience...oh and free parking today...I was as patient as possible and now I get to walk around the hospital for another 3 hours...will post again later...

Getting this process started

We made it over the pass...15mph though we didn't know why we were going so slow...now we are headed into Seattle for my ERCP/dual drain...I will post later about how it went.  Lots of prayer please!!

Update

We had a great evening in Seattle and now we are back at VM...oh such a familiar scene...hopefully not too many more of these deja vu trips...

First off was a blood draw...phlebotomist FAILED! Next was the liter of barium sulfate...oh yum....haha being healthy is overrated...next came an IV...which took a few painful attempts...and then the CT Scan.  We headed down to our followup with my Doc and they didn't have my appt...eek...but they got us in before the Doc left the office!

We reviewed the bloodwork and CT Scan and came to the conclusion of no drain tubes right now...let my body continue to heal itself. I will come back and repeat the same process in February unless something "on my list of bad symptoms" happens. The fluid is collecting "nicely" though slow. 

Today the doctor mentioned something I had not heard or realized...he said the tail of my pancreas blew apart...I thought it was entact and just dying...he was happy that it looks like about 50% left. On a good note, there aren't any open ducts from the good part to the bad part...it sufficiently walled itself off...as far as we can see and evidenced by lack of severe pain (if pancreatic juices were going directly into abdomin).

So overall ok visit...not best case but not anywhere near worst case...we are thankful for continued healing!!!

After a good lunch at Cheesecake Factory and a movie, we are headed to Ikea...maybe we shouldn't have left during rush hour... 

Thank you all for your prayer today and through this whole process!

We miss our baby but it looks like he is having fun with Uncle and Aunt Tina...