[Magdalen] More prayers

[Jay Weigel]

The pain and discomfort and fluids only, notwithstanding the "something
about lymph nodes", suggest that he may have an ileus, meaning that his
bowel is temporarily not working/moving--not exactly paralyzed, but
something similar. It's not uncommon after bowel surgery; I had a small one
after my second that they failed to diagnose, and I was miserable. I tried
to tell them, but I was a bit foggy from pain meds. It's diagnosable mostly
by process of elimination (sorry!) and the treatment is to basically keep
the patient NPO (nothing by mouth or sips and ice chips only) and wait for
it to go away, or if it's severe, put down a nasogastric tube to help
decompress things and wait for it to go away.

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jim is still in hospital after the emergency surgery of June 16. Endless
> CT scans and colonoscopies later, the original incision has healed nicely
> but he is still in great pain and discomfort and still on fluids only.  No
> hard information that he can understand, he says.  "Something about lymph
> nodes."  A specialist may come in tomorrow.  Nearly three weeks later he is
> in rough shape.  His Montreal daughter will come for the third time this
> weekend.  His Toronto daughter won't drive 'all that way' on her own, so
> ....
>
> So prayers for Jim, please, as he waits and waits and waits to hear his
> fate, as he puts it , and for relief from pain and discomfortxc.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
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