IT HAS A NAME!!!!

Ok. I haven’t been keeping up with my writing so much with all of the craziness that has been going on in my house but really I AM RELIEVED!!! My husband’s condition, the reason he has been in so much pain, with no appetite, losing 20 pounds in 3 weeks….acute pancreatitis!!! It has a name!!! We are not crazy!!! He IS NOT some drug seeking person floating in and out of the ER!!! There is a diagnosis!! We can fix this!!! As I type I am accompanied by my 5 year old trying to get him to lay down and sleep. I left my husband in the caring hands of the folks at the hospital to come home and do mom duty. Oh it is the wee hours of the morning and I honestly could use the sleep but my mind races with joy and I cannot thank the folks who are praying!! GOD is GOOD!!! I am so excited. This makes sense!!! It fits!!! And there is treatment!!! It is not pleasant, but there is a treatment!!!
***BACKSTORY*** This has happened before and it took 8 excruciating months and tons of ER and doctor visits to only be told that it was an ulcer that had caused all of the pain. At the time the diagnosis did not matter it only mattered that we had one and the symptoms went away with treatment. The ulcer was most likely caused by the 6 pill a day hydrocodone that the doctor had him taking, but hey I’m just a mom. Pancreatitis fits this case better. It makes sense that what happened 3 years ago was also pancreatitis. Praise the Lord!!

Currently my husband has been admitted to the hospital, one that actually had a sympathetic doctor that understood how frustrating it must have been to have pain with no known cause and to keep being treated as though he were only seeking pain meds!!! Well of course he was!!! He was in pain!! BUT we also wanted to know why!!??? WHY was he hurting so badly that he couldn’t eat? Why was his spleen swollen? WHY were all of his labs coming back “normal”?? There was nothing normal about his pain, the pale face and hands….but I digress. A wonderful man, GOD bless him named Dr. Hamilton has now given me reason to hope!!! This angel has given me answers where I thought there were not going to be any….

Ladies and gentlemen I must get some sort of sleep but just needed to get some very real, very good news out there!!! Acute pancreatitis!!! IT HAS A NAME!!! (FYI the pancreas is really not all that cute at all 😉 )