Re: From Camping to the Hospital

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Diane,

Bless your heart. Girlfriend your a rock, pain I can

stand; nausea I'm a woose. You can do this, and if

they figure out how to fix your stomach so you quick

hurting maybe a little good came out of it. Terrible

way to have to figure it out though.

Lots of prayers, good thoughts and southern hugs

coming your way....Connie

--- Diane Aja dianeaja@...> wrote:

> Hi All,

> Just letting you know that I just got home from the

> hospital. I went on my camping trip last Friday and

> had fun until we were on our way home on Sunday

> around lunch time. I was good and stayed in the RV

> with air most of the time and kept myself cool.

> Everything was going great until we headed home on

> Sunday. I had one of my pain attacks and it was

> horrendous and long. I ended up in the back seat of

> our Yukon XL writhing in pain until my husband could

> get me here into town to the ER. I've never had him

> take me to the ER before, but this time it was

> different. I had to go. I needed morphine or

> something strong because the pain and nausea was not

> letting up after over a half hour. Needless to say,

> it's Thursday morning and I just got home! First

> they said I had pancreatis because my lipase(sp)

> numbers were way high. Then the CT scan of pancreas

> showed nothing changed from May, except my spleen is

> bigger and a weirder shape than ever, and they said

> with everything taken under consideration, it was

> NOT pancreatis. Yesterday morning I had a biopsy of

> my stomach and small intestine. No results yet, but

> doc said my stomach lining was red and inflamed and

> I had bile in there (not supposed to). My intestine

> looked o.k. They think the inflammation is probably

> sarcoid and the bile is from movement problems

> caused by the sarc. Anyone else have sarc in the

> stomach or intestines? This is the area where these

> pain attacks have been killing me so much. So it

> makes sense to me. I am just so tired of all this.

> They just tell me " well there is nothing we can do

> about it if it is the sarc, we're sorry. " I am very

> depressed right now. Please tell me I have the

> strength to fight this thing that is taking me over

> so quickly. I ask God for strength everyday, but

> I'm not doing very good. I haven't had real food

> since Saturday and I've gained 5 pounds. Go figure.

> It's all that I.V. cocktail! Yum, Yum!!! ha-ha!!!

> I'm going to go make myself a piece of toast and boy

> it sounds sooooo good right now. Hope I can keep it

> down. I've had enough broth and jello to last a

> lifetime. I won't be on the computer much, and I

> came home to over 400 emails so if I missed

> anyone's, I'm sorry

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> Blessings and love to all,

> Diane who is so happy to be home!

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