Emergency Room Visit

By Shannon | June 16, 2003

Well … yesterday I spent the entire day (7am - 5pm) in the emergency room at Strong Hospital. :(

I had been having abdominal cramps for a few days now and thought it was just one of the side effects coming on .. you know .. fatigue .. impending nausea.

Well it turns out it was a little more serious than that. :(

I was suffering from dehydration and it seems I had some blockage in the beginning of my small intestine. It measured 20cm wide by 60cm long (8 x 24 inches). Now that is alot of CRAP! :p

Because of my Chemo Treatment they were not sure how to treat the blockage. My blood counts were pretty low so they had to be careful. It was pretty scary. I must say I would have rather gone through another Bone Marrow Biopsy then go through the pain I was in yesterday.

Needless to say yesterday was not a very fun day for me. We are not sure if the blockage was cleared yesterday or not. The pain is not completely gone, but hopefully things will clear up today. I am on some medicine for the next few days to see if we can make everything right again.

I must say that the doctors (Dr. Syritt) and nurses (Anna, Shelly) in the ER were just awesome. Thanks for taking care of me.

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