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Shouldn't Celiac3270 Be Back On Line By Now?

Canadian Karen

By Canadian Karen
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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Canadian Karen Community Regular
Canadian Karen
Posted

I thought for sure celiac3270 would have visited here to give us an update. I am kinda worried now.

I am sending more prayers his way that everything is okay.....

Hugs,

Karen

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KaitiUSA Enthusiast
KaitiUSA
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I think he said wednesday or thursday. I wish I had some kind of update. I hope everything went well. Hopefully he'll be back here soon :D

mela14 Enthusiast
mela14
Posted

I was thinking the same thing too..........hope all went well.

Guest barbara3675
Guest barbara3675
Posted

Was on vacation for a week, what's up with celiac3270--what type of surgery is he experiencing? I sure will keep him in my good thoughts and look forward to his return.

Barbara

stef-the-kicking-cuty Enthusiast
stef-the-kicking-cuty
Posted

Hey, I was gone for a few days, too. And I was wondering, if he's already back. Hm, it might have taken a little longer than everybody expected. I hope, he's fine.

Stef

flagbabyds Collaborator
flagbabyds
Posted

he said that he would be in the hospital for like a week so he should be back sometime soon

celiac3270 Collaborator
celiac3270
Posted

I'm back! I can't give a complete update, but I just wanted to inform you :). In the next hour I hope to get back here and I'll give you the full story.

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mela14 Enthusiast
mela14
Posted

welcome back,

let us know how you are just as soon as you can.

hope you are on the road to wellness now!

celiac3270 Collaborator
celiac3270
Posted

Monday -- Surgery Day -- The doctor told me I was very lucky to have gone 14 years without a serious problem. Any one of the hundreds of times I've been sick, my intestines could have coiled around a vein cutting off the blood supply and essentially killing an organ. I had to sit around in the waiting room all day until about 4:00 in the afternoon (since they were squeezing me in on an "emergency basis." In the procedure, they made three incisions--one in the bellybutton, one about halfway between my belly button and the left-most part of my abdominal area, one on the right. The incisions were small--maybe three centimeters each. They stretched out my intestines (side to side) as much as possible in the "LADS Procedure". They also took out my appendix since it's in the wrong spot as a result of all this and as a result of this, if I ever got appendicitis they would never find it--too dangerous so they took it out since it doesn't do much for me anyway. When I woke up I had a tube that went from my stomach through my throat and up into my nose and out into a container. They had suction on it so it was removing a greenish liquid from my stomach. The doctors said that since they had to touch the bowels and intestines so much, they sort of froze up. My throat and nostril got really sore from the tube over the next few days. I also had an IV of course, and some oxygen since I wasn't breathing as deeply as they wanted. The oxygen tube was removed a day later. I was in a room with a little child and I couldn't sleep much because to ladies on the other side of the curtain had loud childs music playing all night and were talking in Spanish extraordinarily loud--the way I might yell, or at least raise my voice--plus the child cried a lot. I got moved to a private room the next day by the nurses who felt sorry for me :):lol: .

Tuesday, Wednesday -- Recovery -- They took the oxygen tube out, but the other tube hurt so much. I still wasn't allowed to eat or drink anything. The cuts weren't as bad as the throat pain...I had morphine to control any pain I had, but I stopped using it when I was told it could slow up bowel progress--I didn't want to sit there for days waiting. They moved the tube about an inch higher since it was a little low in my stomach--really painful. I sat in a chair for a half hour Tuesday, but it made me nauseous and dizzy. Oh, and I started walking Wednesday since that would also help me to recover and get things moving--with a stand of all the drips and pain meds.

Thursday -- I walked a tremendous amount (for post-operation)--49 laps around the floor, which consisted of four long hallways--with my stand of meds again :). Still the tubes down my throat, but they were, to my relief, removed late in the day--due mostly to my walking-- and they let me eat a lemon ice (gluten-free) and a little chicken broth--hot water with an unopened package of "Herb Ox" powdery stuff to put in it--also gluten-free, of course.

Friday -- The doctors told me that I could start eating solid foods without any restriction--though I made sure to eat slowly and walk after eating to keep things moving so I wouldn't aggravate anything and need the tube put down again. 1st BM....lol....I'm not sparing any details. I did a lot more sitting in the chair--actually, Thursday I spent most of the day walking, second most in a chair, then the least time in my bed and Friday I was a little tired, but I sat in a chair again for most of the day. They disconnected the drip from the IV in my hand and reconnected it later to give me something else. I was extremely surprised when the doctors came in around 5:30 and said I could go home if I wanted to, since on Wed./Thurs. had been predicting Saturday--maybe late afternoon--and only that soon because I was so diligent about walking and sitting up and trying to recover.

Carriefaith Enthusiast
Carriefaith
Posted

That tube thingy sounds painful :(

I'm really glad that you are home and doing well though :D

I wish you a great recovery and hopefully you will be symptom free forever B)

Best wishes

angel-jd1 Community Regular
angel-jd1
Posted

Welcome back kiddo!! Now get off the computer and GO REST!!!! You just had surgery silly. Take care of yourself.

-Jessica :rolleyes:

stargirl Apprentice
stargirl
Posted

Feel better quickly celiac3270!

mela14 Enthusiast
mela14
Posted

glad you're back! You will get better and stronger each day. Just give it time and rest a lot. Your body need it. You've been through a lot!

I've had 7 surgeries for abdominal adhesions and it takes evrything out of you but you WILL recover.

Hang in there and keep us posted!

celiac3270 Collaborator
celiac3270
Posted

Thank you ;)

P.S. What was really cool was that one of the nurses--she added the medications to my drip and stuff on--Wednesday, I think--was celiac herself! Had never heard of celiac.com, checked for celiac sites on the internet, or known that there were gluten-free restaurants in NYC. She asked if I could e-mail later, which I will--and visited the message board while I was in the hospital

stef-the-kicking-cuty Enthusiast
stef-the-kicking-cuty
Posted

Wow, good to see you back and on the way to recovery :D . Interesting story, that with the tube indeed does sound very painful :( . That with the nurse, that she had celiac, that's just one proof, that there are more and more patients with celiac out there :lol: . I don't wish it to them, but our world gets much better through that though. I'm glad to hear, everything went well at the end. Keep us posted about your recovery :D .

Hugs, Stef

MySuicidalTurtle Enthusiast
MySuicidalTurtle
Posted

Hello, celiac3270!

mommida Enthusiast
mommida
Posted

Glad to hear everything went well.

My family wishes you a speedy recovery.

Laura

Canadian Karen Community Regular
Canadian Karen
Posted
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Well, Mister Readingracer!!!!

I sure is a relief to hear from you!!!!

I am glad you are home safely and it sounds like it's wasn't exactly a walk in the park, eh? Oh well, it will all be worth it once you start feeling so much better than you have in years!! God was watching out for you in regards to the doctors telling you that you were very lucky that some much more serious didn't happen.

Now make sure you get some rest and recoup your strength....

Hugs,

Karen

celiac3270 Collaborator
celiac3270
Posted

I was back at the hospital a little sooner than expected: about 2:30 (Eastern time). This morning I had some swelling....I'm pretty open about things, but I won't go into a tremendous amount of detail here--just the scrotum becoming very enlarged and they told me to come in. It's some sort of infection with the epidydimus (sp?) ...antibiotics for 10 days....released around 6:30, though and hoping I won't be leaving home again for a little while.

Maggie1956 Rookie
Maggie1956
Posted

So glad you're on the mend celiac3270. :D It sounds like you've been through quite an ordeal, so take it easy for a while, ok?

Please keep us posted. We're looking forward to hearing about your progress toward total good health. ;)

lbsteenwyk Explorer
lbsteenwyk
Posted

Welcome back, celiac3270. I'm so glad your surgery went well. You've been in my thoughts these past few days. As someone else said, it does take time to recover from surgery, so take it easy!

cdford Contributor
cdford
Posted

Been praying for you. Glad you are better and home again. Those tubes are awful. What was even worse for me was not being able to communicate well. Maybe that is the last time you will ever have to experience it.

Twister2 Contributor
Twister2
Posted

Hi celiac3270! Glad to hear you are recovering well, what an ordeal! I hope you feel better soon and hope the surgery works well for you in the long run.

Keep us posted!!

Hugs,

Twister

plantime Contributor
plantime
Posted

{{{Hugs}}}!! Rest and recover. Give yourself time. Take care of yourself! I'm glad you were able to reach out to that nurse, maybe now she doesn't feel so alone with celiac.

mela14 Enthusiast
mela14
Posted

boy...it's always something. don't get discouraged. take the antibiotics and rest. you'll be be on your feet soon enough. don't foget to take probiotics with the anitbiotics!

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