Location: St. Augustine, FL
About Me: A high school Biology teacher's coping with rosacea while living in the interesting and sometimes insane world of public education.
November 22, 2005
The CAT scan, hospitalization, and colonoscopy
Sorry for not posting lately, but the past weeks have been insane. I went in for an abdominal CAT scan for the diverticulitis. When I got home the phone was ringing. It was the gastroenterologist's office telling me to go to the emergency room immediately and have myself admitted into the hospital. The doctor met me there and told me that I had an abscessed colon and a large area of microperforations that were thankfully sealed off. I was pumped full of antibiotics for a couple of days with no real improvement. Then test results came back showing that I had picked up a secondary staph infection that was resistant to almost everything. They broke out the heavy stuff then, vancomycin, and put me on that for 3 days. I improved enough to send me home with three antibiotics, including a new one that cost $1800 for a 2 week treatment.
I was still pretty weak, but managed to return to school for a few days. This Monday I went in for a colonoscopy. He found one small polyp and removed it as well as segmental colitis inflammation which he biopsied. Today I felt pretty good teaching and had more energy than I've had in awhile. The gastroenterologist has called in a new prescription today for some type of antiinflammatory medication. I'll let you know more when I find out about it.
The rosacea has been great lately. I tried the Eucerin cream for redness and it worked really well in reducing the cheek redness.
I feel completely disconnected with teaching lately because of all of the absences and illness. I do try hard when I'm there but the kids have seen more of substitutes than of me this month. I hope things will get back to something approaching normalcy at school next week. I also hate missing the cat adoption days for the past 3 weeks at Petco.
I go back for a followup at the gastroenterologist in 2 weeks. After that, we'll see if a colon resection is in my future.
Posted by on November 22, 2005 12:56 PM
You said your rosacea is in remission. Exactly how did this occur? How did you attain remission? Is your rosacea still in remssion?
Are you avoiding certain foods? Are you fasting/detoxing? Are you using creams or meds for rosacea? How did you come to remission?? Please email me your story of what you "did" to get your rosacea into remission, God bless!
Posted by: Sue C at December 28, 2006 12:30 PM