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I'm back from the hospital again. The third attack of pancreatitis came only four weeks after the second, and fortunately, they think they have it figured out and fixed this time. The process involved another eight days in the hospital and a procedure to remove debris from the bile ducts that lead to the liver. I ended up with a blood infection from the crap that backed up, but it seems to be responding to antibiotics. Next day, a different surgeon removed my gallbladder, which was the cause of the sludge that caused the problem, and I should be fixed for good this time!
Between the pain meds and anesthesia two days in a row, I haven't had a decent night's sleep in more than a week. It sucks to lay around with pain that isn't quite under control and drift off into an altered state that really doesn't qualify as sleep. I've come to think of it as hallucinatory unawareness. What's happening in that state makes some sort of sense until you open your eyes and see what you expect to see. Anyway, that crap should be mostly out of my system soon and sleep should return to normal.
I was away over Memorial Day weekend and missed yard saleing, which is always fun. There should be another opportunity over the Fourth of July, although most of the good stuff was already sold. It was also the anniversary of the garage burning down. I planned on BBQing steaks to celebrate, but that will have to wait. Not sure how long it will be before I can eat a steak.
I started on the wood pile before this crap happened, but there is still a lot of wood to cut and split. Again, I should be in shape for that soon. Not sure exactly how they closed the little holes they go through to remove the gb, but the surgeon did say that there are no stitches to be removed. With the amount of pressure I put on my gut muscles just getting up from the hospital bed, I suspect that I will be able to move freely as soon as the pain is gone.
My first outdoor project will be bringing out the compressor and filling a flat tire on the coach. One flat leads to two if all the weight is left on one tire, so it needs to be done ASAP. I'm still planning on doing this today even if I need Donna's help. We'll fill the tire and place a block under the shackle to hold the weight if/when the tire deflates again. Somewhere along the way I'll need my buddy to help jack the thing up and plug the tire. The coach hasn't moved since April, so it shouldn't be a serious leak.
So, life goes on.... just a bit, Ok, a lot more slowly than usual. We've had heat on after a few days of near record highs, and it's supposed to warm up again starting tomorrow, so now that the hours of daylight are less than three weeks away from turning to the downward side, we will have summer.
They call what I had "sludge" and it caused many problems when it blocked the duct work.
