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Back in hospital
As some of you may remember I had a difficult time ~one year ago when I was suffering with recurrent bouts of ascending cholangitis. That all came to an abrupt end when I had a cholecystectromy and biliary tree reconstruction which is normally only performed on liver transplant patients. I made a slow recovery due to less then optimal analgesia and a relatively uneventful recovery apart from getting my would infected.
Last thusrday I started getting epigastric pain radiating straight through to the inferior pole of my right scapula. I felt so tired that I fell asleep by 6pm.
Friday morning I felt fine but I thought I'd better check my bloods as a precautionary measure. They were all fine apart from a slightly raised white count, so I put it down to a bit of gastroenteritis. During the next four days the pain was replaced by sharp colic in the right upper quadrant of my abdomen.
By monday it had kept me awake all night. I had also noticed that my abdomen was becoming more distended on the right. I thought that I had better get an xray at work and it showed faecal loading in in the ascending colon with a few dilated loops of small bowel.
After conservative management most of the pain has resolved and I was allowed home today albeit twisting my consultant's arm.
So I'm back home - which is good.
[/rant]
sorry
Back in hospital
As some of you may remember I had a difficult time ~one year ago when I was suffering with recurrent bouts of ascending cholangitis. That all came to an abrupt end when I had a cholecystectromy and biliary tree reconstruction which is normally only performed on liver transplant patients. I made a slow recovery due to less then optimal analgesia and a relatively uneventful recovery apart from getting my would infected.
Last thusrday I started getting epigastric pain radiating straight through to the inferior pole of my right scapula. I felt so tired that I fell asleep by 6pm.
Friday morning I felt fine but I thought I'd better check my bloods as a precautionary measure. They were all fine apart from a slightly raised white count, so I put it down to a bit of gastroenteritis. During the next four days the pain was replaced by sharp colic in the right upper quadrant of my abdomen.
By monday it had kept me awake all night. I had also noticed that my abdomen was becoming more distended on the right. I thought that I had better get an xray at work and it showed faecal loading in in the ascending colon with a few dilated loops of small bowel.
After conservative management most of the pain has resolved and I was allowed home today albeit twisting my consultant's arm.
So I'm back home - which is good.
[/rant]
sorry
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