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Saturday, July 19, 2008

last few days

The last few days have been better!! I haven't been throwing up straight stomach acid anymore!! YAY!! Thank you, Lord. Seriously.
I'm not really consuming a lot of food or beverages. I'm not doing it on purpose. I'm just not really into it. I'm not really hungry. I'm not really thirsty. I just kind of feel blah.

The good news is that I was able to gain some weight while I was on the TPN recently. The bad news is that it wrecked havoc on my liver again, and I had mega-elevated liver enzymes again. The doctor switched the type of TPN that I was on to a nonfat, low-calorie version. I've already lost a couple of pounds since I switched, but that's okay. He thinks that ought to do the trick for the liver. If it doesn't do the trick, then we may have to delay the surgery. I hope (and pray) that it does the trick.

If anyone would like to do some more reading about the J-tube (the type of feeding tube) they're putting in, here's a good website that you can check out. It explains it all very nicely. http://www.dukehealth.org/HealthLibrary/CareGuides/Cancer/TreatmentInstructions/jejunostomy

I think that's all for now.
Love and hugs to all!
brelin

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for writing this.