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

Still in hospital, but hopefully will be dismissed today. Last couple of days have gone really well. I still want to reiterate if you are admitted to a hospital be sure and have someone if you can’t, check and recheck every med they are giving you, why they are giving it to you and document it!!!!!! This […]

Praise the LORD!!!! Angie is doing really well. Had a hiccup night before last with feeding tube. Plugged feeding tube, made for a long night. All her medicine now is given through tube and some of it is quite sticky. They crush all of her pills and mix them with water, if the tube isn’t flushed […]

Another good night, two in a row . Praise the LORD!!! They have taken the morphine pump away again everything now is oral( J-tube) which is her feeding tube. They are looking at Wednesday or Thursday for dismissal. Afternoon nurse had Angie give herself an injection of insulin, she needs to learn, hopefully just for […]

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 […]