So I spent 3 days as a guest of Rex Hospital for my bout with Pancreatitis. The only thing we learned while I was there was that no one knows why I had the Pancreatitis. I don't have a gallbladder anymore and the ultrasound they performed did not show any left over stones or sludge in the bile ducts. The other common cause of Pancreatitis is alcohol - I don't drink enough to cause that - I may have one drink a week at this point. The other thing that was discovered during my stay at Rex was that the surface of my liver is rough and uneven - it should be smooth. So I was tested for several liver diseases. None of them came back as positive. So that begs the question - why is my liver like that (supposedly scarred - almost like cirhosis)? Did the problem with my liver cause the pancreatitis?
And more importantly ... What the hell? I mean seriously? Who has all this stuff happen to them in such a short amount of time and it's not connected somehow? Everyone I talk to says that it can't be connected to the kidney tumor. Fine. But I had an attack like this just in May - so it can't be idiopathic - it must somehow be connected to SOMETHING else I have going on. The gastric bypass surgery? My malabsorption due to the gastric bypass? The abdominal CT scan and the upper endoscopy I had showed nothing out of the ordinary there. And let's not forget that the day before all this happened I had my wisdom tooth removed. I was put on percocet (nothing new there) and amoxicillin for that. I feel like my body is attacking itself. So either someone seriously has a voo doo doll of me and is having a lot of fun with it, or there is something systemic going on here. I need answers. I need to know I'm not going insane.
But somehow I feel like I'm not going to get any answers.
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