Stomach Pain

Well it is finally not so cold out, but now it is snowing again.  I wish I could tell you that Andrea had a fantastic day, but that would not be true.  For some reason her belly started hurting yesterday afternoon, she had a good night's sleep last night, but today the pain returned with a vengeance.  They did a whole bunch of tests,many different ones got involved, she was down to radiology twice this afternoon, Xray, abdominal ultrasound, blood tests, fluid samples taken from the stomach cavity, etc, all tests negative.  It is 3 weeks ago today she had her colon surgery, so maybe it is scar tissue, cramps, muscle pain, who knows, no infections found either.  She was not out of bed sitting up at all, PT came in and did leg exercises in bed like usual.  Her tube feeds were turned off last night and will be reassessed in the morning.  The good news is that her bilirubin came down again to 180 from 220 the last test, which is great.  This stomach upset is hopefully only a bump in her road to recovery, and when I left it seemed that her pain was less, and she was resting more comfortably.  Thanks for all the emails sent to Andrea, she really appreciates them.

 

Goodnight, Maynard