I’m here and back on my feet!

Hello everyone!

Sorry it took me long to check in.  Thank you all for your concern.   The surgery did take a lot out of me this time but I am back in my feet and back to work.  I had the ileostomy reversal on June 15th and ended up 4 days in the hospital which was a little longer than I wanted. I returned to work July 9th.  I came home and went to bed the first week.  Lol. Recently I’ve been dealing with UTIs.  I got two back to back and both were different bacteria.  They wanted to hospitalize me for 2-3 days for IV antibiotics but indicated I wanted to try my 4th type of antibiotic first and the fact I was leaving for vacation August 28th.   They said if I got a fever on vacation I would need to go to ER.  I was glad I didn’t get a fever.   In between the two UTIs I was told to go to ER which was a waste of time because all they needed was blood work and urinalysis.  I left work st 2 pm and they wanted to do a CT scan and talked about surgery for a stent.  at 7 pm I asked to be discharge.   The ER Doctor didn’t want to listen as I was trying to say I have an urologist.

it was great to get away since we cancelled our original vacation in May because of my first surgery.   I didn’t go into any type of water as my one incision still is not completely healed.  And the fact that the beach just got rid of the red tide.  We got back on September 4th.  I go gor MRI and doctor appointment on November 1st.  I hope the mild left side hydroureternephrosis is gone.  It was noted on my last MRI.  

In between all that that my husband had his MRI and doctor appointment.  They told him everything looks fine.  However 18 days later they called and indicated that the radiologist saw a haziness suspicious of his pancreatic cancer recurrence.  After talking to ongologist he got a PET scan and it was negative.  What a relief!

And after all that the summer is over.   I feel though my strength is finally coming back.  But most importantly after being in pain every day for over a year and a half I haven’t taken any Motrin or Tylenol for pain (only during my fever).  Just not having pain has given me more energy.

Wishing you all health and happiness!

Love and Hugs,

Kathy