November 25

I know I haven’t posted in a few days, but it’s been a little hectic. Wednesday morning I was supposed to have a surgery to cut the ligament that was pressing on my Celiac artery- ’cause that’s whst they thought was causing all of my pain and such. They put me to sleep, and before they opened me up, they did one last ultrasound. The anesthesia they had me under is a paralytic, and when my nerves/muscles/ligaments were paralyzed, I had no compression. Needless to say, they did not do surgery and I continue to baffle all of the doctors.
So Wednesday was a very difficult day emotionally. It felt like we had a light at the end of the tunnel and then it just disappeared. Yesterday was kind of hard to, because as I sat in my hospital bed watching the Macy’s day parade, I was thinking about my whole family sitting and watching it at home. I miss my siblings so much, and sometimes Facetime just doesn’t cut it. I want to give them hugs and snuggle with my puppy on the couch. If you can’t tell, I’m a little homesick.
The next step now is a nerve block. Monday morning I will be put to sleep (yet again) and the doctor will put needles in my back and inject numbing medicines to the nerves directly around the Celiac artery area. If everything works, my pain will be gone and I won’t have to deal with that. How long the relief will last? We don’t know. How does this relate to my pancreas enzymes going up and down? We don’t know. Will the numbing of the nerves help my nausea? We don’t know. We still have more questions that even the doctors can’t answer. I’m just a big puzzle.
I’ve been painting my wooden box though. I’m almost completely finished- then I’ll post pictures. I would have finished it today, but my nausea got really bad. So that’s what’s on the agenda for tomorrow- finish painting my inspiration box. I’m also going to paint some pictures for decoration in the room. And I guess those decoration pictures could be Christmas-y because it’s past Thanksgiving now. Oh yeah! I forgot to say that I ate real food yesterday. My grandma had a Thanksgiving meal catered to the hospital. I had a bite of turkey and some mashed potatoes, but mainly a piece of pumpkin pie :) The doctors said it was alright because I’m nauseous when I don’t eat and when I do, so it didn’t matter for one day. I’m still on clear liquids, but we discovered sorbet counts as on of those. Dinner tonight is Haagen Dazs raspberry sorbet.
I think I mentioned in one of my first posts my little friend Caleb that I met at the hospital in Atlanta. I would love if you guys would pray for him tonight. He had cat scratch fever and had lesions on his liver and spleen. We just found out he needed to go to urgent care immediately when the results from his last test came in. He needs prayers more than me tonight, so make sure to send some positive thoughts his way!!!
Gonna go watch Say Yes to the Dress :)