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

 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 […]

Last night was a little rough. Very little sleep for Angie and Mom. Cramps started about 1:00am and never subsided. Lots of bloating, pain and tears. She needs to get her bowels working. She was up walking the halls 4-5 times throughout the night. Still didn’t work. Doctors were in this morning, took her off blood thinner drip “Praise GOD” […]

Another really good night. She was up walking the hall’s until 12:30 am. Bound and determined to get her bowels working again on her own versus the help they want to give her.Its truly amazing mom is getting more sleep than Angie, sleeping on the padded ledge by the window. She won’t let me relieve […]

Angie had  a really good night!!! Blood sugar staying in the (80 – 120) range, which is great news. A constant game of balance between insulin and feeding. In the process of increasing tube feeding. Currently at 30ml a day and wanting to get it to 50ml. Once that is reached she will do insulin injections […]

They took the NG tube out of angies nose and moved her out of immediate care :).  Yeah!!!

Angie sat up and stood up!!!!!!!  About 2:00 mtn time the physical therapist came in and Angie sat up on the side of her bed and then stood up and took a couple baby steps!!  She’s is doing so good and we are all so proud of her.  Praise god, he is awesome, our prayers […]

Hi Everybody,  it’s day two and Angie is still doing awesome.  She’s still is in a significant amount of pain from the surgery but that’s to be expected.  Yesterday her pain was down to a 5 out of 10,  which is awesome its been a long time since we’v e heard that number.  She is […]

Good Morning Everyone, Angie is resting well at the moment, long night though trying to get her pain and nausea controlled.  She is such a trooper, she is the strongest person I know, and I love her so much, we all do.  They will begin the feeding tube today.  The physical therapist came in this […]

Hello all, Angie’s is doing really well so far, the first incision was made ad 8:35am, they removed the pancreas and spleen  after about 2 hours (which was awesome), and took the pancreas to the lab to start the process of extracting of the islet cells.  At about 12pm the reconstruction was complete and the […]