Going back in tomorrow....

push your doctor for a direct admit!  I have done this with my son. If they have treated you in the past and know what the problem is there is no reason for you to endure endless, uncomfortable hours in the ER.  Your doctor can do a direct admit with one phone call... you just need to push them to do it.  Dont take no for an answer!  Good luck!!

Hope you feel better!

 

Thank you. If the nurse is leaning toward the admission, then I feel it's likely to happen. It's definitely what I would prefer. Waiting in the ER is the worst.

I go to CC in Ohio. Step 2 surgery wasn't bad at all. I adapted to eating again much more easily than after Step 1. It was nice not to have the learning curve of the ostomy this go around. I was feeling great when I got home until I got hit with whatever this illness is. Not sure if it's surgery related or not.

RUN--I hope you get feeling better soon, that has to be very rough! I know just what you are going through, I was in the hospital for 18 days and then 7 days at home sick leading up to the ER (But after those 25 days, better and better each day--there IS a light at the end of your tunnel, they'll get you all fixed back up.) I wanted to update you on what the stoma nurses said about my stoma that points down and the second hole, but since you're going back-you will get plenty of your own stoma advice. Either way though, they thought I needed a firmer convexity so I'm stopping using the convex ring and using a Hollister convex wafer with a little paste. We'll see how this holds up. With the second opening, they said to just allow for it when I'm cutting and applying pouch. Obvious answer, but again, easier SAID and DONE by the stoma nurse.

You sound very dehydrated and hopefully a few days of investigating and IV FLUIDS will get you on the right path. Then guess what, you'll be even that much closer to takedown. :) Which makes us very happy!

Ditto all the above. SO sorry to hear you're not doing so well. Please keep us posted and hope you're feeling better soon. Be great to figure out what's going on. Big hugs Sarah x

Hope you are doing better! Get some rest!

Hope you're feeling better soon!!

Hey guys! I'm still alive. Actually feeling a good bit better and realizing I would have never gotten better on my own at home no matter what I did. Was admitted yesterday morning. CT scan showed a collection of fluid in my lower left abdomen. They use a CT guided process to drain it and placed a JP drain. They pulled over 50 cc's of yuck out and of course the drain keeps doing its thing. I'm also on two kinds of iv antibiotic right now. I was finally released off of NPO, thank goodness because I've been so thirsty.

So that's the quick and dirty version. I only have my phone for internet versus my iPad so hard to write up too much. Thanks for all the well wishes and continued support.

Sorry, that should have been lower right abdomen. Not that it matters much, but I don't want it to be confusing later if I mention it.

I had a great session with a stoma nurse yesterday. One of the residents came too because I told him I had questions I wanted answered about why this stoma is like that. He admitted it was less than ideal but told me they had a little trouble with the amount of tension coming from both directions when it was created, etc. She did some kind of manic to sort of pop it up out of the hole it was nestled in. She used the calvion lollipop on it, but the skin was already much improved from before. She showed me a couple of other things that I think are going to make it easier for me going forward.

Sounds like a bunch of good things came from going back...glad to hear! As I recall, the doc that does the the CT guided drain is rather handsome...kinda like a Kennedy

I am so glad that you are okay and that they figured out the issue. I too had a random pocket of fluid in my belly that had to get drained with the CT guided procedure. My drain went right through my butt cheek. Ouch! It happened almost a month after my surgery and I had been feeling really nauseated and ill. My situation was interesting in that all the drainage that came out never showed any signs of infection. In fact, my surgeon said I probably would have been okay if they hadn't drained it, but that they wouldn't have known that by what was originally seen on the CT scan. It had to be drained to know what we were dealing with. Regardless, I felt a lot better afterwards. I hope it helps you too.

That is great news that you figured out a system that works better with your stoma. It must feel good to know why the stoma was created that way too.

Hope you are getting lots of rest and continue to feel better!

Definitely going home today.