My surgery

Well here it is, the whole story. I went to get surgery on Thursday January 15th, 2009 to create my temporary ileostomy bag, to prepare for my sphincteroplasty surgery to repair the muscle cut during my fistuluctomy in 2008. A couple months after my sphincteroplasty, I will have surgery to reverse or resection surgery for my ileostomy. Anyways, I had to arrive at UTMB here in Galveston at 5:30 am, and all my pre-op and surgery went well. However, after my surgery they did not give me my needed cortisone steroids. At first Mom and I didn't think much of it, but as the night progressed and they continued to give me morphine for my pain, I developed the worse migraine ive ever had. Mom and I asked for some tylenol for the migraine, but everytime we asked they said theyd check to see if it was on my med's list or whatever. Anyways, all Thursday night and Friday morning I seemed to get progressivley wOrse, and still no one would give me anything but morphine. Friday morning after they gave me my usual morning medications I threw them up and then developed a low grade fever that went from 99.2 to 101 in about 15 minutes. After that, Mom told the nurse that I needed some solu-cortef IMMEDIATELY!!! After that the nurse and some of my surgeons staff left to talk about what to do. In the meantime the respiratory nurse came in and pointed out my fast heart beat, and got me some oxygen to help. My ostomy care nurse also came in around this same time to show us how to change and take care of my stoma and bags. I was nauseated, in severe pain from my migraine, and my fever was getting worse. Finally, one of my surgeons med. students did something to make everyone snap out of it and give me my steroids and some tylenol and vicodin. About 10 minutes after i got my steriods,oxygen,and vicodin i was 100% better. My color came back, my fever broke, and my migraine went away. After that they started taking better care of me and made sure i had all the steroids i needed. So, once again my Mom saved the day, and I'm alive to see another day. Mom and I are really nervous now about UTMB and how they handle patients, but they and my surgeon are in for an earful of complaints from us. I'm all better now though, i got home on Sunday, and continue to improve every day. Thank you God!!!

GOOD NEWS!!!

Well, I have great news everyone. I had my colonoscopy follow up appt. on Tuesday and I all my biopsies came back negative for any IBD. Thank God. So, on Jan. 14th I have my first surgery to make my temp. ileostomy bag. Then another surgery a few weeks later to fix my sphincter muscle, then another a few more weeks later to resect the ileostomy. Thank you God for this whole ileostomy thing being only temporary. Other than that, not a whole lot new to report. I got my wii the other day, and have been having a blast with it. That's all for now.