Last Friday June 6th John took the day off from work so that we could spend the day as a family having an "in your own backyard" vacation. I will post more on that when I can sit at my own computer for a longer period of time because I have oodles of pictures to post...tee hee Anyway, we stayed at the Holiday Inn in Rock Island Friday night thanks to a friend who works there who gave us her employee rate. We had a great time but on Saturday morning I woke up not feeling so grand. My back was really hurting. John was able to get me in at Palmer College Clinic for a chiropractic adjustment and it seemed to help...for about a half hour...then this intense pain set in on my back right side shoulder blade which radiated to my upper right abdomen. I ended up in the E.R. at 11am and they ran all kinds of tests...first one test came back that I had a blood clot in my lung but further tests showed that was wrong. Then they said it was pleurisy however I barfed shortly after so they ran a gall bladder test...and there it was...full of stones. They were able to get the pain under control and sent me home with instructions to make an appointment with a surgeon. I suffered all Saturday night and Sunday morning my fever was 102 degrees. After talking to the doctor on call from our doctors office, he confirmed I had a hot gall bladder and needed to report ASAP to the E.R. again. After what seemed like an eternity, the surgeon came and after checking me over for a few minutes said "my team is on standby from a surgery I just did and you will be in surgery in 20 minutes." WOW! THAT WAS FAST!
Easy however it was not. You see, I had a surgery at 3 days of age for Duodenal Artresia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodenal_atresia ) and my belly was full of adhesions from that as well as that surgery had been performed right where my gall bladder was located. What normally is a 45 minute procedure turned into an almost 4 hour procedure. The surgeon had to dissect and cauterize a lot! I have 6 incisions instead of the normal 3 - 4 for a laproscopic gall bladder surgery as well. When the surgeon talked to me the next day, I was shocked! He said it was bad bad bad. There was a lot of gangrene and had I not gotten it taken care of ASAP, my blood could have become septic. He said I had probably been suffering for 6 months to a year prior to this. That makes sense because I would get these weird fevers with no other symptoms for months and months and our family doc kept telling me it was just a virus. Guess he will find out it wasn't...HAHAHAHAHA I am so thankful the Lord worked it out the way he did. At first I was frustrated because they wouldn't do anything on Saturday but the Lord reminded me that HIS timing is perfect and I have a feeling that HE allowed me to wait so that I could have the best surgeon for the job. Needless to say, I had a drain tube and was hospitalized til Wednesday evening when my white count finally went below 1,000 and my fever was down to 100.6. It has been so slow...I am not used to sitting down much these days. I am looking forward to riding bikes again and being my normal self. My folks stayed with us from Saturday til today and then took Maddie home with them for a few days. Our church has been such a blessing too with providing meals and just encouragement!!!
I plan to get some of our family weekend pictures posted maybe tomorrow...but for now, I must sign off and rest again. I feel like sleeping all the time but they say that is from the anesthesia wearing off...we shall see! Sorry for the typos...if you find any. Using John's computer laptop is not my forte....tee hee
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