[Magdalen] More prayers

[Susan Hagen]

Prayers for Jim that he may find relief and healing.
Susan

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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