Monday, October 29, 2007

I'm at Vis!

Well, I got my doctor's approval and so I'm here! Joe and I drove down on Saturday and I've been laying pretty low so far. But, I will be attending a few papers this week, and will be presenting my phd work in the Phd Colloquim on wednesday - 2pm which is different than the printed schedule, but correct online. Anyway, it's been really fun so far and I've been feeling great. I'll try to keep everyone up to date on the rest of the week!

Friday, October 12, 2007

Home again! (should have been posted Tues, the 9th)

So, it seemed as soon as I hit the hospital bed, I was feeling better. Really, I think it was the IV anti-nausea as well as getting fluids. But nonetheless the stay wasn't bad since I just kept feeling better. I was put on a liquid diet, to curb the GI ickyness, and while I did well, my diet progressed to things like toast, canned fruit, and pasta with butter. Well, all of that went down fine, and since all of my symptoms disappeared, they switched me back to my oral medications, watched me for a day and sent me home. I'd say it was a good stay, since the week before I went in I had been feeling pretty awful and now, I'm feeling good enough to get out of bed!

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Back to the Hospital...

Well, I've been increasingly under the weather for about a week now, and it came to a head yesterday (Friday) when I could not stay away from the toilet or keep anything down, including pills. We called up to the clinic and they immediately admitted me. I was feeling pretty awful, but as soon as I got some IV anti-nausea, things turned around drastically, and I now am feeling very good, no nausea, no frequent potty runs. But, I am on a funny diet. When I got here yesterday I was put on a "clear liquid" diet, which means broth or jello. Now, I'm on a progressive diet where I have a list of foods to choose, I can choose 1 and then in 3 hours, if all goes well, I can choose another one. So, they are being really nice to my tummy, which is good. But I'm SO hungry! and all I want is whatever is being advertised on tv! Oooo, this just in, I'm getting some red blood since my hematicrit is low. And it's going to be my new blood type, how exciting. So, the plan for the rest of the weekend is to continue to progress my diet and see how I react, and if it's smooth sailing, I'll probably go home Monday. Else, I'm scheduled for some gut-scopes on Monday to finally figure out what is going on. I'll keep you posted!