[Magdalen] Update on my situation...

[Marion Thompson]

What an ordeal, Sheila!  You are in my prayers and I certainly wish you a quick and complete recovery from all this.  

Marion, a pilgrim

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From: Marilyn Cepeda
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2019 1:05 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Update on my situation...

I am so sorry you have had this happen. I do hope and pray you will soon be
on the mend!

On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 11:17 AM Sheila Ketler <debbiedimond52 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have not been seeing many posts from list sibs... I have not been posting
> myself... In December I fainted twice in the grocery store went to
> emergency - spent Christmas Eve in hospital. Low potassium low blood
> pressure bladder infection. Thought we got that health with. First week
> January I was not eating (I went 7 days no food only water and juice...)
> In so much pain I could barely get off the couch. Finally phoned for an
> ambulance back to the hospital I went. Spent all day finally hooked up to a
> morphine drip... Surgeon called in after CAT scan he advised bowel
> perforation and blockage... Emergency surgery - I now have the ostomy
> issues... Finally able to get out for small periods of time husband helps
> me I can't go out alone as of yet... but I can climb the stairs in the
> house... I couldn't do that until a few weeks ago(they kept me for almost 3
> weeks in hospital my white blood count was too wonky to allow me to leave
> and I still had low blood pressure and low potassium.) It has been a total
> experience. I was asked to organ sub but I had to turn it down I was not
> well enough to actually do it... I was sick almost all the time and didn't
> think it was anything serious!! Yeah right...
> Surgeon will try to reverse what he just did but it will be another long
> surgery with another major incision... He didn't do it laparoscopically so
> I have a big scar... and I will have another if he can reconnect
> everything...
> Please remember me in your prayers - it has been a long haul trying to get
> myself back to how I was berfore and I am still not there yet..
>
> Blessings to all in this Lenten time
>
> Sheila
>
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Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda