Pancreatitis Lite

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My experience with this disease has (so far) been one acute attack,

with the subsequent removal of my gall bladder. The stones from the

gall bladder had blocked the port and backed everything up,

initiating the pancreatitis.

I have been most fortunate. I am feeling better than I have for two

months at this time, and my greatest challenge to date (since a

relatively painless and simple surgery) was pizza night at work. Our

facility provides our meals, since shifts are twelve hours and we are

not able to leave for meals. Institutional meals are not necessarily

pancreas friendly. In addition to pizza was a cake to honor one of

our members leaving to another career.

In ancient days I would have consumed mass quantities of these items.

I was able to guide myself to the foods I know are safe and wise, in

spite of the temptation. This was due to the memory of pain and the

inspiration of those on this list who suffer so much.

I must assume that there are others who are Pancreatitis Lite

attending to the list. I wanted to encourage you to post with

questions, observations and stories along with those who suffer the

depths of our disease. It is easy to feel that, because we suffer

little or not at all, that we are not one with those who suffer much.

Yet from just a few months on this list, I have seen that any of us

who are Pancreatitis Lite can find ourselves making the journey

deeper into this disease.

One area I think we can help one another is in learning how to eat,

and encouraging one another to care for ourselves in whatever stage

of the disease we live.

Mike Lockridge