Detour: a Muddy Road Ahead?

This chart so needs to be changed!
Not everyone who has pain shows it in their faces.
Perhaps this should only apply to children?

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Good Wednesday All;
Here I am! hehehe
Sorry that I haven't blogged one bit since we got back home. I meant to, but this back of mine is less than nice about that...

If I have missed anything in your blogs, please let me know. (I believe that I am almost caught up)?

Now where were we?
By now you have read Casey's entry of her experience in Minnesota, so I will try not to repeat.

But I do have a few pictures for you.
(I should probably warn you that below there is one picture of her innards).


While we were waiting for Dr. Sutherland, she had to try to be occupied...

So why not play with the expensive medical instruments?
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(Kids today). hehehe
"...and lead us not into temptation..." 
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  That prayer obviously came too late...
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She showed me her Popeye arm...
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HELP!  Please?
I have been unable to uncover anything about that radioactive contrast dye that was spilled into her arm.
Can anyone enlighten me why we should not be concerned about the long term side effects of her radiologists accident?!?
Knowledge is power, and I would feel better being "in the know".

Here is one of the pictures from that fateful EGD.
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Please do not ask me how to interpret it all. (Nor do I know what the white speckles are).

Casey will have to undergo more surgery.
This surgery, to be a 'detour' of sorts. Her bile is backing up from her small intestine into her stomach. This is what is causing her the pain that she has been having for at least the past month.  For now, she is on Carafate. It is an ulcer drug, but it coats the stomach and intestines, so her pain won't be so bad. 

Dr. Sutherland is trying to buy her a bit of time by putting her on this course of treatment. I have just read that you can take it up to 6 or 8 weeks, (depending on the site you read). 
I thought he had mentioned 6 months.

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Below is George. He is Swedish- and very talkative. He drives the little buggy for people that are unable, or unwilling, to walk miles underground every day. He is a joy to the ill, and a contagiously happy man for everyone!

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Casey and George.
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These are two of the doors we passed by on our way to one of Caseys tests.

They made me giggle!

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Very clever!

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After all was said and done, we were on our way home...

This truck passed us on I-94... 
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Lucky bow hunters.
(Seeing them also made me very hungry)!
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It rained almost every day of our week there. Happy I had my umbrella.
Yes, Punk hates it!

Lots of rain, and plenty of wind too.

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The grasses put down by the strong winds...
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Good to see a bit of color left over -in the trees and on the hills...
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As we neared home, it became apparent that we had also received a ton of rain while we were away.
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Just one of the ditches on our road...
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And then to see old John Ryan's hill- (The last hill before home).

There is a little road that goes off to the left. That is where the original Ryans home was.
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Down to a third of a mile now.  And always nice to see ALL of the pine trees there? Mom and Dad planted every single one that you can see in this picture!
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OK. So it isn't the most impressive photo of those trees,
But there are over 40 acres that they did plant.
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And then came...
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Only one more driveway, and we were home!!!!
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No one stole my weeping willow! hehehe
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And some things never change...
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   Yes, he was on the INside ! 
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At any rate, we are home- 
And when Casey's "detour" is done, then all will be well once again.

Hope all is well in your little corner of the world!

Love to all.

XOXO
Me

In Youngest Children, a Second Dose of 2009 H1N1

http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2009/interimpedsdata.htm

November 2, 2009
BULLETIN
Updated Results: In Youngest Children, a Second Dose of 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Elicits Robust Immune Response

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced interim results that show that children nine years of age and younger have a significantly improved immune response when given a second 15-microgram dose of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine.

The clinical trial evaluated the immune response of children six months to 17 years of age who received two doses of either 15 or 30 micrograms of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine. One of the most important findings from this study is that among children nine years old and younger, the second dose elicited a robust immune response after eight to 10 days, a significant improvement over the immune responses in this age group following only a single dose.

These findings support the current recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which sets U.S. recommendations for all immunizations: To achieve an immune response likely to protect from illness, children nine years of age and younger should receive two 15-microgram doses of 2009 H1N1 vaccine. The trial data also continue to support the recommendation that children ten years of age and older should receive only one 15-microgram dose of vaccine.

The interim results include data from all available samples from the 583 children enrolled into the trial, and build upon the preliminary results released September 21 from a subset of volunteers. Those early results, based on blood samples taken eight to 10 days following the first injection, showed that in the majority of children 10 years of age and older, a single 15-microgram dose of vaccine elicited a strong immune response. In contrast, most of the younger children did not respond strongly to one dose of either 15 or 30 micrograms of vaccine.

The new data, obtained eight to 10 days after the second vaccine dose, are compared here with results obtained 21 days after the first vaccine dose:

* Among the youngest children (6 to 35 months), 100 percent had a robust immune response after the second 15-microgram dose compared with only 25 percent three weeks after the first dose.
* In children aged 3 through 9 years old, 94 percent had a robust response after the second 15-microgram dose compared with only 55 percent three weeks after the first dose.
* In general, the immune responses in children receiving two 15-microgram doses and those receiving two 30-microgram doses of vaccine were similar, suggesting that receipt of two 15 microgram doses is adequate to elicit a strong immune response.

Analysis continues on the data from this trial, and additional findings will be provided as they become available.

Additional information about this and other NIAID-sponsored trials of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccines are available at the NIAID's H1N1 Flu page.
http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/Flu/H1N1/Research/


News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID Web site at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH)—The Nation's Medical Research Agency—includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.

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Damn, hey?

XOXO
Me