Saw the doctor yesterday
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wobblerlorriShe said there were no stones at all on the CT scan I had Tuesday. Hm. She's really worried about my level of dehydration -- I took in about 4000 mL fluid yesterday and only put out about 1500. Yesterday I started drinking GatorAde -- I'm not eating anything, so I figured the sugar wasn't going to bother me, and I knew I needed the electrolytes.
I brought her the sand I've been passing and the two small stones (one was blood red, the other was blackish, both very very small, less than a millimeter). She checked my abdomen, and I'm sore and tender in the right upper quadrant.
Told her about the explosive diarrhea anytime I eat anything more interesting than a few crackers or a couple of pieces of white bread; she said there's a particularly evil intestinal bug running around, but that with my having been on Cipro and Bactrim immediately preceding the problem, it could also be Clostridium difficile, a particularly nasty little bug that usually is kept down by your normal intestinal flora, unless it all gets killed off by certain antibiotics, like Cipro and Bactrim. Then it cranks up and makes your life a living hell.
So I left with stat orders for an ultrasound of my gall bladder (she's worried I might have stones or sludge, which could cause the pain and nausea), and a fecal culture to check for C. diff. Got the ultrasound done, couldn't get the fecal sample because I hadn't eaten anything, so came home, ate the rest of my wonderful hot and sour soup and my eggroll (from the wonderful Chinese restaurant next to Wal-Mart), and within the hour was able to "produce". That will go to the hospital for testing today.
Let me tell you, it was foul. I used the pee catcher bowl, but turned it around so it would catch the foul flux. It was dark green, mucusy, and smelled like pig shit coated in rotted honey. Since I had to keep this foul mess in the refrigerator, I carefully poured some from the pee catcher into the sample cup, made sure it was sealed, doused the outside with alcohol, dried it, then slid it carefully into a ziplock bag from the hospital, which is stridently marked BIOHAZARD!!! all over it. No shit in my fridge, thanks.
I should hear results from the ultrasound today.
She also told me to YES, drink GatorAde and nothing BUT GatorAde, and don't worry about the sugar. I'm to drink at least 4 of them a day, more if I can, until this is resolved. The sugar will replace the energy from the food, and the electrolytes will keep my biochemistry from getting totally whacked. Everything has tasted so awful recently I was just drinking water, which of course messed up my electrolytes. After drinking GatorAde all day yesterday, I feel a bit perkier today.
Still not going to eat anything. When a small bowl of hot and sour soup and 1 eggroll puts you on the toilet 8 times in 3 hours, it's not worth it to eat.
But I'm still hanging in there. Oh, and I've lost 11 pounds since I saw her Monday a week ago. However, this is NOT a diet a recommend. Just the stench isn't worth the baggier clothes.
I brought her the sand I've been passing and the two small stones (one was blood red, the other was blackish, both very very small, less than a millimeter). She checked my abdomen, and I'm sore and tender in the right upper quadrant.
Told her about the explosive diarrhea anytime I eat anything more interesting than a few crackers or a couple of pieces of white bread; she said there's a particularly evil intestinal bug running around, but that with my having been on Cipro and Bactrim immediately preceding the problem, it could also be Clostridium difficile, a particularly nasty little bug that usually is kept down by your normal intestinal flora, unless it all gets killed off by certain antibiotics, like Cipro and Bactrim. Then it cranks up and makes your life a living hell.
So I left with stat orders for an ultrasound of my gall bladder (she's worried I might have stones or sludge, which could cause the pain and nausea), and a fecal culture to check for C. diff. Got the ultrasound done, couldn't get the fecal sample because I hadn't eaten anything, so came home, ate the rest of my wonderful hot and sour soup and my eggroll (from the wonderful Chinese restaurant next to Wal-Mart), and within the hour was able to "produce". That will go to the hospital for testing today.
Let me tell you, it was foul. I used the pee catcher bowl, but turned it around so it would catch the foul flux. It was dark green, mucusy, and smelled like pig shit coated in rotted honey. Since I had to keep this foul mess in the refrigerator, I carefully poured some from the pee catcher into the sample cup, made sure it was sealed, doused the outside with alcohol, dried it, then slid it carefully into a ziplock bag from the hospital, which is stridently marked BIOHAZARD!!! all over it. No shit in my fridge, thanks.
I should hear results from the ultrasound today.
She also told me to YES, drink GatorAde and nothing BUT GatorAde, and don't worry about the sugar. I'm to drink at least 4 of them a day, more if I can, until this is resolved. The sugar will replace the energy from the food, and the electrolytes will keep my biochemistry from getting totally whacked. Everything has tasted so awful recently I was just drinking water, which of course messed up my electrolytes. After drinking GatorAde all day yesterday, I feel a bit perkier today.
Still not going to eat anything. When a small bowl of hot and sour soup and 1 eggroll puts you on the toilet 8 times in 3 hours, it's not worth it to eat.
But I'm still hanging in there. Oh, and I've lost 11 pounds since I saw her Monday a week ago. However, this is NOT a diet a recommend. Just the stench isn't worth the baggier clothes.
