OK - so I had a laparoscopic transgastric approach endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with sphincterotomy yesterday. Apparently my Sphincter of Oddi was very narrow - about the size of a pin head. When the surgeon went in and cut it open he said that the bile and sludge really started to flow. So he feels the surgery was a success and he said he has a 99% success rate with this procedure. While I'm not at all happy that I had one more thing go wrong this year, I am at least relieved that we have found a reason for it, and everyone feels that I will stop having bouts of pancreatitis now and will start to feel much better.
Unfortunately, one of the side effects of the procedure I had done is that I actually have another bout of pancreatitis. This is because they were in there messing with it. It's not as bad as my past bouts by any means - but it means that I will be here in the hospital through the rest of the weekend as pancreatitis is nothing to mess with.
I also just started itching really bad all over. We think it is a reaction to the morphine I had in the OR. All I know is I'm about to scratch my ever lovin' skin right off. EVERYTHING itches. And I am quite sore from the surgery - it was laparoscopic so that helps - but it appears as though they bruised one of my ribs with one of the trocars. All the extra skin makes things difficult and there was a lot of tugging and pulling.
So I have been here in the hospital for 6 days - will be here for 7 or 8 at this point. It's kinda lonely. I miss my family and my bed.
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