[Magdalen] More prayers

[Ginga Wilder]

Prayers for Jim, Marion.  And for you as well...no matter what, this cannot
be easy for you.

Ginga

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>