Follow Up w/ Corinne

So I spoke with Corinne yesterday (my nurse practitioner who does my fils), she was so sweet and very concerned about my ER endeavor this past weekend. She said that when things like this happen, she prefers to see her patients every 2-3 weeks rather than every 4-6 weeks. That way it doesn't take as long to fill up. I am totally up for that but I will definetly be getting less fills. Like I said in previous posts, I think I was way too agressive which I of coruse wouldn't admit then. Much like others, I thought the bigger the fill the better but now I know that is just not the case because look what happened =(. Of course Corinne would have to think these amounts would be okay but I was thinking 1.5cc, 1.5cc, 1c, and than just .5cc from there on out as far as the fill schdule would go. I have appointments on Nov. 4th, Nov. 20th, and Dec. 4th so far. After the Dec. 4th appointment that should leave me at 5cc and then I was thinking to get .5cc before christmas. I don't know I am just thinking outloud at this point lol like I said Corinne would have to be cool with all this.

Does anyone else out there feel like maybe they have been too agressive with fills or anything like that?? Oh and I wanted to say thanks to everyone for all your suport during my ordeal! Ya'll rock!

Visit to the ER

Around 1 o'clock yesterday I decided to eat some soybeans in between breakfast and lunch. I was feeling hungry but it was not time to eat lunch just yet. I was really excited because I ate half of one serving which was only about 1/8 of a cup and felt really satisfied. About 10-15 minutes after I had ate them, I started feeling weird. I didn't have any painful feelings, it was just severe discomfort. Immediately I thought that I had perhaps ate too fast and so I was ready to endure the discomfort for the next hour.

After one hour I still felt the same. I kept having to spit because it was like there was not enough room in my stomach for me to even swallow it! Then I kept throwing up. My stomach kept creating that "slim" to try and help through whatever was stuck but of course that was not helping because it was creating less and less room in my stomach. No word of a lie this went on for 6 hours!

Finally around 6pm I called Lahey Clinic to make sure that if I went there, there would be someone to help. They assured me there was a doctor on call. So I went to the ER at Lahey, checked in and it took about 2.5hours until someone could see me. I spent almost all that time waiting in the bathroom spitting and trying to throw up. I felt so sick. I felt like I had a golf ball stuck in my throat.

Finally this man came out, come to find out he was my surgeons Sr. Surgical Resident. He was so nice. He didn't seem very confident in himself of being able to find my port though but at that point I didn't care how many time he had to poke me I just wanted it out! He found my port very quickly and extracted 6cc's of saline and left 1cc in. I am not kidding when I say that I had immediate relief! The doctor almost didn't believe me. He said "are you serious?" and when I said "oh yes" he said "well that was gratifying!" That made me giggle.

So then he took me for an xray to make sure the band was still in the right spot. Since I had been throwing up so much you just don't know. The xrays came back and he said everything looked perfect. He sent me home and now I just have to call Corinne (my nurse practitioner) on Monday and let her know what happened. In a way I am kind of happy I had almost all the fluid taken out because I feel I might have been to aggressive with the fills thinking "the faster the better" so I would much prefer to go back and start filling up much more slowly now.

Sigh...so that's it....I am on liquids today and softs tomorrow. Thanks for listening!