[Magdalen] More prayers

[Jay Weigel]

That does not sound at all good, Marion :(  However, it doesn't at all
preclude a post-op ileus, which is basically caused by anesthesia. Prayers
for a resolution, and pain control, and for some knowledge, and ease for
all.

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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