Update on hospital stay

Here's the latest on my condition for those whom are interested. They put me back on my personal pain control meds (thank God) they are only thing that were somewhat dulling the pain. After pleading and insisting with the "team" of doctors that there was something else wrong with me, they ran an ultrasound yesterday with the plan that if anything was abnormal they would run some sort of nuclear scan to take more pictures of my abdomen.

Needless to say, at first, they said, "oh, everything is normal and we are closely watching your labs to make certain that if anything changes we will know about it."

After another miserable night, very little sleep, the Dr.'s came in about 5:30a.m. and then again around 7:00 a.m., both times seeing me in agonizing pain and doubled over crying; only to have one of the little "baby" doctors tell me, "oh, everything is progressing as it should and things were finally moving in the right direction." I thought, BULLSHIT!

Long story short, they did take me down for the radioactive imaging around 11 a.m. did find a TON of bile floating around in my cavity! Dear God, finally an answer to the excruciating pain that they kept telling me was "normal"!

They brought me back up, I signed a release to perform another procedure and they wheeled me down to put in two drainage tubes. I had already filled four by the time I got back to my room.

Tomorrow they will do a scope down my throat through my bowels and place a stint inside my bile duct, so it can heal. In six weeks the stint will be out and I should be back to (as) normal as I can be.

More later, my pain meds are making me drowsy.