I Love Hospitals. Not!!!

Once again, I am back in the hospital. This is the third Wednesday in a row I have been to the ER. Monday morning I had been feeling a little sick, and by Monday night I was in pain. After a phone call with my surgeon, he wanted me to go into his office Tuesday morning. Mike drove me to the appointment, and we both waited a long time before I was called in. He took a quick look at me and said that it seemed I was healing just fine from the surgery, and he couldn't understand why I was in pain. He sent me to go get some blood work done just in case. I was put back on a clear liquid diet. Wednesday morning the doc said that the results from the blood test looked abnormal, and I need to talk to my GI doctor as soon as I could. My GI doc said that once again my liver levels were high, so he told me to go to the ER and get a CT scan of my abdomen done. Little did I know, it would be the cause that has kept me here.





I got a ERCP procedure done in order to see if there was a loose gall stone in my system that was causing the pain as well as my liver levels to increase. There is risk that 5-10% of people who undergo ERCP can get pancreatitis . Acute pancreatitis usually begins with pain in the upper abdomen that may last for a few days. The pain may be severe and may become constant—just in the abdomen—or it may reach to the back and other areas. It may be sudden and intense or begin as a mild pain that gets worse when food is eaten. Someone with acute pancreatitis often looks and feels very sick. After my ERCP procedure I immediately felt fine, and I thought all of this would soon be behind me. At around 10 pm Thursday, I began to feel some pain in my abdomen, but nothing too major. They gave me pain killers and it put me to sleep. I woke up at 5 am crying with pain. Apparently i am in that 5-10% of people. Because of this pancreatitis , i will be here in the hospital till Monday, at the earliest.





One of the major downsides of having pancreatitis is that the earliest I will get any type of food, even clear liquids will probably be Monday.





Updates:


Janie- other than spending most of the month of September in the hospital, I have had to drop two classes. If I can get out of here by Monday night, I can hopefully salvage my two Tuesday classes, if not, then I will have to drop them as well. I did get invited to join the Honors program at school this semester! I was so thrilled to get the letter in the mail. I have a new calling in church, I am in the compassionate service committee. My job is to make sure that the sisters in our ward who are having a baby get some dinners made by others. I really like this calling.

Mike's Baseball Game

Mike-
He has been such a wonderful husband, taking good care of his wife. On Monday he hit a home run in his baseball game. He is still going to therapy for a strain on his hip. Fantasy Football has began, and he is having fun with that. Every year the Bowerbank family has their own Fantasy Football League. The following picture is of last year's winner(Dad), second place (me), and third place (Jeff).