[Magdalen] More prayers

[Lynn Ronkainen]

So sorry to hear about all of this  Marion. Keeping Jim in my thoughts and 
prayers along this journey.
peace
Lynn

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From: "Marion Thompson" <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2017 11:50 AM
To: <Magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] More prayers

> 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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