Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
Okay - it's a little later than I had planned, but here's the basic cause for my recent hospitalization.
Since last spring I've been experiencing problems with my blood pressure. Because of the specific kidney disease that I've got (FSGS or Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis), my blood pressure gets jacked around and has been spiking in the evenings. When it spikes really high as in my case, I'd get severe migraine headaches and I'd end up in the Urgent Care or Emergency Room at least once or twice a week where the headache would be treated with morphine along with a couple of different BP meds intravenously.
The upside was that the morphine would always kill the headache and would also help bring my blood pressure down; the downside was that morphine would cause my digestive system to 'back up', i.e. constipation. After several months of this, my digestive system became really backed up and this led to a three inch tear in the small intestine; I was rushed into emergency surgery, where some part of my small intestine being removed. I was the unwilling recipient of what is known as an ileostomy.
Yup.....lucky me. In addition to having to contend with a freaking kidney disease, now I've got an ileostomy bag to complicate life just a little more. Nothing is more fun than waking up after being heavily sedated for seveal weeks to find that I've got hardware attached your stomach.
I'll get reexamined in about six weeks to see if this will be permanent or not. So far, the docs are 'hopeful' about the chances of getting all of my plumbing reconnected.
So there you have it - how Mikey dodged another brush with death. My wife tells me that I've got to have an angel sitting on my shoulder and I'm starting to believe her.
** UPDATE **
I went to see the surgeon that operated on me for a follow-up and got some interesting news.
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Man Mikey, eventually your just gonna be a brain in a jar hooked up to the Net ;-)
|| Posted by nunya, February 9, 2009 07:34 AM ||Glad to see you're back here online, was getting worried. The conservative blogs are dropping off like wall street stocks and I have nobody to troll!
Thinking of you and your family, and hope you start making a turn real soon!
Let's try this again (spam blocker at mu.nu is working overtime)
The BEST news is that you're alive. The bonus is that there's potential to reverse the anastomosis.
One of these days, we're both going to be healthy and we'll be able to go back to our hellraisin' ways.
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