Out goes the Stent

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Had my ERCP on Wednesday to take out the old stent and put in a new

one..when I came to the doctor told me the good news that my

pancreatic duct had blown open to 4mm and the stent was barely

hanging in there, so he didn't need to put another stent back in as

the enzymes were flowing freely..thank goodness..but alas, a few

minutes as I got wheeled back to recovery, there came the nausea,

followed by that unforgettable agonizing pain. You guessed it, an

attack started..I was actually expecting it because I get an attack

after every ERCP. They gave me pain medicine, not the dilaudid that

I asked for but it didn't help much, then the doctor came round to

see me, told the nurse to give me 3mg dilaudid and admit me. He then

told me the bad news..

He thought it was a stone in my pancreatic duct but when he tried to

manipulate it out it wouldn't budge. He then discovered that it is a

polyp..related to my Familial Polyposis hereditary illness that I

have been blessed with and is almost the size of the duct so further

attacks will be caused by that polyp causing blockages. He can't

cauterize it like he can the other polyps, and he can't just pull it

out either...if it is precancerous, they will need to remove the

surrounding area also..so I don't know what they are going to do

because surgery is about out of the question due to the tumours that

tend to grow whenever I have surgery,and the ones that are growing

on my mesentry arteries won't allow the surgeon to pull up enough

small intestine to attach it to my pancreas...

Then to top it all off, my husband hates my doctor, why? I think

it's just an attitude thing. He really is very qualified at his job,

and I'm vomiting, in pain and my husband on the phone telling me he

can't handle looking after our 2 year old and that he wants me to

discharge myself from hospital..I'm in tears and know that I can't

go home in the state I am in.

They finally release me Friday night and after having temps of 101

in hospital, think I have some sort of flu or virus as I am as sick

as a dog now. I've told myhusband if he can't handle it, or doesn't

want to be there for me, he better let me know so I can get on with

my poor life and if it needs to be without him then I will cry but

will be tough enough to continue on with the support of my family

who..unfortunately live all the way back in Australia.

He wants to stay married to me but thinks that nothing is as bad as

it is. He of course tells his side to all his family and I feel that

I have to battle against them aswell. I am tired, sick, upset and

don't know what to do anymore. I really am facing this all alone

now..but have to keep it together for our daughter's sake...