One of the additional bad things, out of the many horrible things about the corona virus is that there has been a hold on “non-emergency” surgeries… or which I completely understand. My body, however did not take the hint of the notifications, however.
Since late February I have been undergoing a severe Crohn’s attack. I was supposed to have surgery March 13 to fix everything but of course that was put on hold and still is. The main issue is that the pain and icky symptoms which I will not go into, have and keep getting worse. The good news is that surgery has been temporarily rescheduled for the second week in May, if all goes well. The hospital this is to be done at is a smaller hospital with more limited resources, that has been hit hard by the virus.
The other hospital, where I go to for basically every non-GI issue I have in my life is huge, is a Trauma center, and has been in the news about how, if you are not suffering from the virus to be avoided at all costs. This hospital’s ER basically has been closed for all non-corona related causes in the ER unless it is for something that is life threatening.
But the rub is, since mid-March I have been stuck with a kidney stone and a stent. Usually when I get a stone (the one currently in me is #44) and I get a stent it is uncomfortable but not too too bad. But this last time they put in a stent and left in the stone. I wil spare you the visual just suffice it to say I am having the normal stent pain but a side-effect of stent placement pain tbat I never had before.
I am on the phone 3 times a week or so, with my stone doc, who has done everything he could do but he told me the same thing that they are telling all their stone patients.. just try to grin and bear it and eventually, hopefully they will be able to do something via surgery to get rid of the stone and stent.
Well much to my happiness I was told last week that I will be (On the first day that the hospital is opening up a limited number of ERs for such issues) that I will be one of the first people able to get in.
So tomorrow I will go in, for what i hope and pray for to be a quick outpatient procedure to get a huge amount of pain relief. I am one of those people with multiple conditions that put me at high risk for getting the corona virus and dying from it. Needless to say I am thinking of going in to the hospital in a full body suit, getting the surgery, and exiting in another full body covering.
Anyway, if you have a free moment tomorrow and your thoughts are barren and you have nothing exciting going on, if you would not send me a prayer, or a good thought, or even a dad joke thru your mind. I have survived/lasted thru a heck of a lot of stuff with a smile on my face…. ok, maybe not a smile, but with less of a grimace on my face… thanks to the kind thoughts and prayers from my Daily Kos friends.