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April 27, 2008
Week 16
Toward the end of week 15, I thought/hoped that I was rounding the corner into the land free of nausea, fatigue and general "bleah."
So wrong.
Sunday night/Monday morning, my mom took my dad to the emergency room. It wasn't until Tuesday afternoon that it was confirmed that he has acute pancreatitis, caused by gall stones. Sohe's in the hospital until the pancreatic swelling goes down, then they'll remove his gall bladder, hopefully laproscopically.
I say all that to say that I'm not unconvinced that my week of digestive hell was not somewhat caused by stress, or eerily sympathetic. All I know is that I didn't sleep at all Monday night. It was as though part of my intestine on my left side was in a knot, and every time my digestive system pulsed, it was like a KNIFE IN MY ABDOMEN. This went on, in lessening amounts thanks to a serious diet shift, milk of magnesia and some acupuncture, all week. It's still going on now, but mildly enough that I actually functioned like a person today.
One word. OW.
Posted by nikl at April 27, 2008 04:18 PM
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