Thursday, December 18, 2003

My hospital stay

I am back home but still in pain so came in to check things out while I am waiting to take a nice strong pain reliever and go to bed. I have Pancreatitis and its very  painful. funny but the doctor said it usually comes from drinking or smoking or gall stones and we have ruled out all three as they don't pertain to me so I figure its from a fatty diet ( I was on the Suzanne Somers diet) and lost 30#s but its not worth it if I got this pain. Hopefully it will leave soon and now I have to follow a low fat diet ( doctors orders) I will too because I don't want this back as I have been in so much pain for the last 6 days. Only at the hospital 4 of those though. Went when I couldn't stand the pain anymore. I still can't but now I have a diet to follow and pills to take until I get well.

It was nice to see a couple of comments in my last post and thanks for welcoming me home.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, nice room ;-) Hope they were nice to you and gave you some water.

Anonymous said...

Oh My Goodness. A member of my family went through the same thing about 4 years ago. I don't wish this on any one. Glad you are home and you will slowly begin to feel like yourself again.

Just a note. The person in my family who had pancreatitis was had been following the Atkins Diet. Coincidence????

Anonymous said...

yes it was a very nice room and they gave me swabs to wet my whistle. lol Everyone was very nice to me ~ in fact so nice I wished I was still there ~ well sort of because they managed the pain better than I am doing.

I guess that diet isn't very good for some people and I will be putting my books away , can't throw them away yet but don't want others to have them either as it may cause pain.... spread the word.

Anonymous said...

Oh, and while in there I lost 6#s so that was a good thing too! ;)

Anonymous said...

We enjoy your Journal and try to read it every day. Glad you are home from the hospital. Take care. Mary and Ray(Dad)