Hi All!

[Guest guest]

I saw the posts about the gathering in Oct. & wanted to add my name

to the list of attendees wanting to go. Bonnie, I emailed you about

surveymonkey. I couldn't get it to work today, although I did try

it last week & was in the process of waiting for the school calendar

to see how it would fit into my plans, but never finished it.

My PCP put me in the hospital last week. Severely anemic, she

said. I knew that I shouldn't be feeling as weak as I was at almost

1 mo post op. So, I was admitted and the dr. wanted to run a few

tests to see where the loss of blood was coming from. She did an

EDG (basically a throat to stomach endoscopy) and found bleeding

ulcers. She decicded that because of that she would put me on

Nexuim & high doses of iron instead of giving me blood because she

said my iron level went up a little bit, and sent me home. I felt a

little better, but not yet OK. By the next day, it was worse. I

called Dr. Bridwell's office and they told me to go back in & demand

the iron right away. He said that my count was too low to be

waiting a few weeks for the iron to kick in - that was normal

protocol for the norm, but not for someone a few weeks post op. So

back to the hospital I went. I had to be admitted again, as they

don't give blood in the ER and I had to be typed & crossed again, as

the armband was off, even though the blood tech said that the blood

was good for three days after you have been typed & crossed. I am

feeling better, but I still think that I am weaker than I should be

at 1 month. You know, I knew that everything was just going too

well!

Anyway, I think I have enough energy to sit again, so I will be

posting more.

LOL,

Nan