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August 11, 2004

tests and more tests

so nice!! You wanna hear something crazy? Okay we went camping at Fort Pickens (soooo nice and only 120.00 for 6 nights 7 days, can't stay in a hotel on the beach for that in Florida right?) Anyway our pop-up was right next to the bathroom, I was soooo happy. So Monday they decide to close it until Thursday ::look of shock and panic:: Yeah for any normal person this doesn't mean a darn thing, you may just have to walk a little further to the next bathroom, but for a person with UC or Crohn's it is a very scary thing to not have a bathroom available just in case. So everything was going good, no problems with tummy UNTIL Wed. night, Oh damn. My very understanding husband offers to drive me to the bath house so I don't have to keep walking (running) back and forth. The big D (Diarrhea) started about 6 or so in the afternoon didn't stop until close to 11 that night, at one point I was in the bathroom for close to an hour, ugghh. How totally embarrassing since it was a public restroom, I almost cried, I just wanted my stomach to stop hurting and the diarrhea to stop, I ended up taking Immodium and it finally stopped. Anyway other than that our trip was awesome, it was a much needed vacation:O)

Posted by Leslie at 07:38 AM | Comments (2)

August 13, 2004

I have to drink what?

I am back from my tests that I had this morning. The small bowel series. Ummm one word describes it.."YUCK!" I thought I was going to puke and have diarrhea right there on the table. Well to be honest, when I first took a sip I was like "MMmmmmm! This not as bad as everyone said it is!!" So I am chugging along, then nausea set in and cramping. I was only half way through the first cup, I had three all together that I had to get into my system. So I did the whole hold your nose trick so you don't taste it, yeah you know what I am talking about don't ya?? Anyway it was so not working! I finally just started taking big gulps of the crap, eyes watering, feeling the hot saliva in the back of my throat, you know the feelingyou get before you vomit? Oh and let me add that they only give you 15 minutes to drink this, this, well whatever you wanna call it. Looking at the clock in front of me I only had 5 minutes to drink the last cup. I couldn't do it. I drank a little more than half and gave up. The technician said that was okay and did what she had to do. It was kind of neat looking at your intestines on the screen, watching the barium make its way through your system. Oh and they were expecting for me to be there at least 3-4 hours, I don't think they expected that the barium would go through my intestines (all of it) in about 5 minutes. She said it is different for everyone but I was really quick. I told my husband I must have some powerful intestines (haha) And that was it. Drink. Pictures. Then leave. My stomach has not been doing to well for the past few days. I keep feeling like I have the urge to "go" Won't go into to many details, but my butt is sore to say the least. Hopefully this will end soon. I go back for check-up with the gastro Tuesday (my birthday, weeeee!) Then I will find out the results of my x-rays and see if I have some scarring or Crohn's going on in there. I am to the point of "Whatever" As in whatever happens, happens.

Posted by Leslie at 10:00 AM | Comments (0)