Thank you all so very much

[Guest guest]

This past week had just turned out to be the most horrible

nightmare. I truly appreciate all the loving phone calls from Cyndi,

, Fliss and Brigette as well as the lovely visits with Heidi

and G. Cythia brought to me alovely orchid that I will have

to look up how to care for and Heidi brought be a wonderful spider

plant, funny thing I was just telling my husbnd I wanted another

spider plant to hang on my planter. I also received a fabulous

bouquet of roses from my Wisconsin friends. I have placed the orchid

and roses in my bedroom, where I have been spending most of my time,

and can apreicate their beauty and they serve as a reminder to me

just how fortunate I am to have met such loving people on this

board. Thank you all again.

I am starting to feel better, still incredibly sore, but better. Saw

one of the surgeons today and he said just to keep on doing what I am

doing, nothing. My situation certainly did turn out to be one for

the med books tho. This is really strange. Maybe some of ya'll

might recall last weekend I wrote that the right side of my belly had

swollen up to the size of a volley ball and was excruciating. Well I

had the hernia repair from my sternum to my navel on May 9 but they

missed a small part just below my navel. Well it opened up to about

the size of a golf ball and allowed my entire, and I am not

exhaggerating here in the least, my entire small bowell to slip out

to above the tissue and muscle and lay just beneath my skin from my

hip to my rib cage. They couldn't believe their eyes when they saw

my cat scan, I cant wait to see it myself. Any way it was

strangulated and all twisted, no wonder the booger hurt so much

I saw the plastic surgeon wednesday around noon and he wanted me to

go straight to the ER, well I had an appt with the GI surgeon that

afternoon, so the plastics guy called him and he said forme to come

to his clinic straight away. He examined me then sent me down to the

radiology dept where I was told I was being admitted right after the

scan. I got into a room very quickly when the GI surgeon came in and

said that we will have to perfomr ermergency surgery right now. It

was about 5pm by that time. I was very upset and wanted to wait for

my husband to get there but the surgeon said there was no time that I

had to go now. I was in the OR by 5:40 pm and out of surgery by 10.

They had told me I might wake up with a colostomy because of the

bowell obstruction and the twisting could cause a decrease in blood

flow killing the tissue of the bowell. I thank God that was not the

case. The only things coming out of me now are a couple more JP

drains (aahhh my favs...LOL).

I was discharged from the Sunday night on some very strong

antibiotics and all the pain meds I could ever possible want. I am

on Ocycontin 20mg bid and oxycodone 10-20mg every 3 hours as needed.

Something interesting they did say is that the Oxy's will increase my

blood sugars, never knew that. I am still very very weak and sleep a

lot. I have difficutly walking still but it is improving everyday.

I apologize for having taken so long to post to ya'll but I have

truly not had the strength.

I hate the oxy's, they make me very feeble minded a little nauseas

and very sleepy. Plus they give me the most wicked dreams all night

long. I still wake at night with pain but I am not hollering out

anymore. I have had lots of surgeries in the last few years but this

one was by far the scariest thing I have ever experienced. That

herniation was so very painful and by the time I had gotten to the

docs I could barely walk at all. I have to admit it was even more

painful then any of my worse panc attacks. I still cant imagine my

entire small bowell squished up and lying just a quarter of an inch

below my skin. I want to see that cat scan to see it for myself.

One weird thing. I wear jewlery that I never take off. Not al ot of

jewlery a neclace and 2 rings. I take them off the night before I

have surgery and it is the first thing I put back on as soon as Iam

home. Well for some reason after I had gotten home from the hospital

after having that first huge herniation repair on May 9th, I did not

want to put them back on. they are heirlooms not very valuable but

priceless to me and I wear them with the love and pride of a family

heirloom. but this time I just did not want to put them back on.

Lucky thing since they would have been removed for the emergency

surgery and I was alone, Lord knows what would have happend to them

and it would have broken my heart to have lost them. Funny huh.

That you all again for all the love and support, it really means a

lot. I have tried to go back and read some of the post I had missed

but I dont know if I will get to them all. YOu people are the only

ones who truly understand what it is like to live like this. Dealing

with the everyday aspects of life and the aspects of illnesses. We

are part of a beautiful society here, this board, we can share the

big and small difficulties that one must face with one and other with

complete understanding and compassion. That is what I consider

valuable and priceless.

With love,

[Guest guest]

,

I'm so very glad you are home and recovering. I can't believe that you took the

time to answer my question (among others!) last week...sitting at your computer

with, as you described it, " my

entire small bowell squished up and lying just a quarter of an inch

below my skin. "

YIKES!!!

I hope this time you feel like you can put your jewelry back on. Your

subconcsious must have known that things were not right, and so you didn't want

to wear what was precious to you. I hope you are wearing them now.

Hugs to you,

Falsone

polis, MD

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