Angie Boyle's Blog   My Journey of a Pancreatectomy and Islet Autotransplantation

Praise the LORD!!!  Last night was a good night after 5 days we slept blocks of 3 to 4 hours.  She had good pain control and was able again to walk halls which helps with strength  and prevention of blood clots and healing. She decided that the Morphine short acting was too strong so she had them […]

Day 14 I can’t believe it, sometimes it feels like it flies, other times it seems to drag. This morning was the first morning with no vomiting, our big celebration was the bowels have began to move so the abdominal cramping is improving in that aspect. The hematoma in the abdomen around the gastric tube […]

Sleep wasn’t too bad as long  as she didn’t have to get up, unfortunately they get you up to walk a couple times a night. Did get some sleep though. Mom did sleep through most of it!!! Thank you LORD!!! Awoke with vomiting again this AM so this morning its CAT scan time. Praise GOD!! We […]

Rough night again, hopefully day is better. Morning hasn’t gone real well Dr. Borja came in and injected lidocaine (a numbing medicine) all around area G-tube goes through stomach wall. Very painful but she is strong(small whimpers) GOD bless Angie!!!They were hoping for 6 – 8 hours of relief, she got maybe 2 hours. She did […]

Last couple days have been kind of rough. Seems if she has had a good night the days aren’t so good and vice versa. Dealing with lots of pain in area of tubing (G-tube and feeding tube) exiting her body. G-tube seems to be giving her the most discomfort but it is also larger than feeding tube. […]

Praise GOD!!!!! Angie had a great night and better day. It’s amazing how things work out when the A team(nursing staff) is taking care of you. Pain is good, food intake is good and general outlook is really good. They removed her staples from incision, upped food intake to 40ml and have her on oral meds […]

It was an interesting night. Started out calm but needless to say it didn’t stay that way(imagine that). Angie had a reaction to the elixar they use to push morphine into G-tube(colored aqua). Think it might be the dye coloring, anyway it was a alergic reaction to something in it. Very anxious feeling and chest pain. Did EKG […]

 Long night again, just plain uncomfortable. Walked the halls alot. G-tube seemed to be the main culprit. Got it cleared around 4:00 am. Things calmed down along with pain. Lots of sleep (not) 4am – 7am. Dr. Dunn and Dr. Borja stopped in A.M. They are going to pull J-tube (one that drains fluids in body […]

 Am happy to report Angie and Mom had a really good night!! This hopefully will carry over to rest of day. They are watching her blood count pretty closely right now as it has dropped from the 10 area to 7’s, if it gets into 6’s it will mean a transfusion. They had warned us […]