Hi Peeps,
Just popped on quickly as Jackie told me people had been posting some good wishes. I don't like having stuff wrong with me, and I don't like being nursed. I do the nursing!
The result of my biopsy was a bit of a shock as I thought it might show a small gastric ulcer, but I didn't think it would be anything serious.
What they found was a large, invasive duodenal ulcer that is backing onto a main artery and is ready to rupture. Which is why they wanted to keep me in hospital for a week. They have been taking my blood daily to check that my iron levels are not falling as this is an indicator as to whether I have started to bleed slowly. The life-threatening bit is if it eats into the artery.
Anyway, I felt quite unsettled by this bit of unexpected news, and decided that I wanted to be at home with Phil and my animals. So I persuaded the doc to release me yesterday but I am under strict instructions to do nothing and to get straight into a hospital at the first sign of a bleed. I am not arguing with that. And if I am truthful, I feel bloody awful - maybe it is the side effects of the meds. Hopefully, when I go back in six weeks, it will have healed. If not I will have to have surgery.
So it is just a waiting game now, and hopefully the biopsy results will confirm that it is benign and that I either do or don't have Coeliac's so that I can get on with sorting out my diet.
If you don't see me on the board don't stress about me. I will be okay. I just don't feel up to much physically, and emotionally I don't feel like being sociable at the moment. It looks as though I may miss the big launch, and I am sad that this has coincided with it, but I will keep in touch with what is going on via Jackie and Pete and the other moderators.
Don't worry. I will be back on the case of the Taverna Club in time for the first one in March.
Thanks for your kind wishes and thoughts. They really do touch my heart.
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