Re: Digest Number 3708

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Shybassett,

You wrote:

> young lady...thanks for responding to each post. I'm 58(have to wait 7

> yrs medicare) and retired. Think there is a maximum amt " lifetime

> use " private insurance amount 0f $$. With a special diet, wouldn't

> that keep you from going to the hospital with pain, etc? Or does the

> average cp patient have pain most of time even when NOT eating? And

> everyone STAYS tired no energy " always " with pc? Do you admin meds

> yourself or have to have caregiver(spouse) give it thru line? Thanks

> a bunch.....how many years have you been diagnosed? How many hospital

> visits do you make a year? Bad enough that cp affects lifestyle, but

> you also have side effects of drugs used to help you. Wow.....

I hate to tell you that there is NOTHING sure with pancreatitis. You

could eat so strictly that the hair would fall off of a suckling pig.

You could do your daily exercises (if you can) religiously without

fail. You could keep your medical regimine to the letter without

fail. You can be a downright " perfect " human being. NONE of that

matters with this illness because you can still have chronic pain,

chronic fatigue, chronic dizziness and on and on and on . . . . It is

hard to win with this disease. Even those who get relief due to

surgery have mainly only received a 2-4 year reprieve only to fall

back into the same place they were when they started, or even worse.

But let me give you this word of encouragement. Try to laugh a lot.

Try to keep as many of your friends as you can. " Sing, like you don't

need the money. Love, like you'll never get hurt. Dance, just like

nobody's watching. It's got to come from the heart if you want it to

work. " (written by Guy 's wife and a fellow songwriter).

Anyse