[Magdalen] More prayers

[Marion Thompson]

The problem predates the surgery by a week of nothing working.  He has 
had a pain in his left side throughout.  In fact back in May he was 
troubled by ongoing  Tylenol 3-level  mouth (not dental) pain. Biopsy of 
a sore inside the lower lip was non-cancerous and doctor then was 
wondering about lymph node in chin and there was lots of back and 
forthing with drs and specialists.  Lower lip remains numb to this day 
and gland is greatly swollen on left side of neck.  His appointment two 
weeks ago with a specialist for that problem was supplanted by this more 
recent run of events.  I'm rather pessimistic about the eventual outcome 
of all this, but I'll be happy to be wrong.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 7/7/2017 10:15 AM, Jay Weigel 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
>>
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