Earthmichael is very sick right now

[roninscg]

זה נכון. אני יודע אנגלית בלבד.

 

[Buster's Uncle]

t_ras también ha reído de mi Google Translate español, violando así una política que defendía, y no debe haber necesitado pedir.

[Kirov]

Walt Disney was right, there is no escape.

[Buster's Uncle]

From Witch Mountain?  Wasn't he long dead by then?

Wait- Escape From Witch Mountain wasn't made yet when he died, so that does make sense.

[t_ras]

It seems Google translates much better to Hebrew. I probably can open now a Hebrew forum

[Buster's Uncle]

Sir, if you think there's promise that it might turn into something and you're willing to take on more responsibility, I will create one right now.


I always run the translations back through the other way to try to see if the meaning comes through at all, and usually post it in English, too, for an extra meaning/embarrassment protection...

[t_ras]

Well, using google translate we can turn this one into hebrew

[Buster's Uncle]

I thought you had to convince a rabbi...


Hmm.  Anyone of the faith besides you and Yitzi?

I should lure cog back for balance...

[Earthmichael]

I thought I would give a quick update, even though I do not have much to report.

I did the capsule endoscopy at my own expense on Tuesday (since insurance was adamant about not covering the test), since it was the only meaningful test left to do.  Unfortunately, the results have no come in yet.  I expected them Friday, and set up a doctor appointment with the top GI doctor at Texas Medical based on this, but he did not have the results Friday either, so that visit was mostly a waste.

I have not had an attack in 8 days now.  This is the longest I have gone since my gall bladder removal, which was followed by 8 days of no attack.

I hope to get the results Tuesday for my test, and hopefully will have more to report.

[Kirov]

Well, this sounds like good news. At least for a start. Hopefully the attacks won't come back anymore.  Let us know about the results!

[Earthmichael]

The capsule endoscopy test failed.  The capsule failed to leave the stomach during the 8 hour monitoring duration of the test.  (I think they should have just monitored longer, maybe 24 hours.)  This does give some information, in that my stomach is not emptying in the manner it should.

A retest is scheduled for Tuesday.  Insurance still probably won't pay.  This time, the doctor is going to place the camera capsule directly in the top of my small intestine, through my throat (GAG), so that we will be sure to get pictures of the small intestines, which is the purpose of the test.

I had an episode Thursday.  I think it was correlated with me trying to wean myself (with doctor supervision) from my two Finnigram patches (which give a constant supply of narcotics, which seems to forestall the episodes.  Problem is, I cannot drive and cannot work and cannot even think that well with this level of narcotic in my system.  Of course, I made up for it by taking dilodid at the start of my episode, which delivers a very strong pain medication.  The trick is catching the episode soon enough that the nausea does not make you puke up the dilodid.  I caught on pretty fast, took a maximum dose of anti-nausea pills and suppositories, and managed to keep the dilodid pills down.  So at least I did not have to go to the emergency room this time, because if I can't get control of the nausea and pain, I have to go to the emergency room to get strong IV doses of anti-nausea meds and IV doses of dilodid.

I will let you know when I get results from the redo of the capsule.  It appears to take several days for the results to be made available, so I won't expect to know anything until Friday or later.

[JarlWolf]

Hang in there Earthmichael... We know your a tough sod that can chew up and spit out any confrontation he gets.

[Dio]

I hope that you get well Earthmichael. It appears as though they have made a little bit of progress by figuring out something is wrong with your stomach.

[Geo]

Best of luck, Earthmichael.
As for the rest of us, I put forward the council motion to assemble a better trained probe team to increase Em's changes of succes...

[Earthmichael]

I appreciate the kind words of support!

I had another attack Sunday.  Unlike the Thursday attack, I could not get the nausea under control and had to spend the day at the Emergency Room getting the nausea and pain under control, and being bored out of my skull.  Only difference I see is Thursday before the attack, I had not had anything to eat, while on Sunday, I had a small serving of grapefruit.  Since a disproportional number of my attacks hit about 9 AM, I think I am going to start skipping breakfast and see if that helps.  (I know, most important meal of the day, blah, blah, blah, but I have bigger concerns.)