Casey Medical History- Just for me and Casey

CaseyAnne's Medical History:

• 1998 – Tonsillectomy
• Dec 2000 – Appendectomy due to chronic appendicitis
• Oct 2005 – Plerodesis with talc powder. Spontaneous pneumothorax on the right side, 20% collapsed. Did have one years earlier, but it was only 5% collapsed and it healed by itself.
• April 2006 to Dec 2008 – Chronic Pancreatitis. Although Dr. Sutherland, who performed my Total Pancreatectomy with Auto-Islet Transplant (Dec 2008), believes that I’ve had it ever since I was young and having bouts of severe stomach problems. We had been told it was the flu or food poisoning and no blood tests were done at that age.
• May 2006 – ERCP to check for pancreatic duct problems
• July 2006 – Cholesysectomy due to crystals found in gall bladder during an ERCP
• Sept 2006 – Partial lobectomy on right side due to another spontaneous pneumothorax. They found “blebs” to be the cause of the 60% collapse and removed that top part of my right lung
• April 2007 – ERCP with manometry done. Found high pressure in pancreas.
• Aug 2007 – Small bowel follow through done with barium
• Aug 2007 – Exploratory laparoscopy done to look for endometriosis
• Sept 2007 – Colonoscopy
• April & August 2008 – EUS’s done
• Dec 18^th 2008 – Total Pancreatectomy with Auto-Islet cell Transplant (TP/AIT) done by Dr. Sutherland at Fairview Hospital in Minneapolis, MN. Found the pancreas to be extremely deteriorated, but did yield many islet cells which were transplanted into my liver
• April 2009 – Partial colectomy, removed over 80% of my colon due to toxic megacolon,
  
• Jan 2010 – Antrectomy with Roux en Y Gastrojejunostomy. Antrectomy because of painful gastroparesis. Roux en y because of bile backing up from my small intestine into my stomach.
• May-June 2010    Received a total of six weekly iron infusions
  

Casey... Not too much of an update.

picture taken in July

Hi All;
Computer is as wacky as ever- Casey says my hard drive will explode one of these days. hehehe
(Gee, could be all of the pictures that slow it down)?

Just a little bit of a blog here this morning-
I'd waited to post.
Pick your favorite one here...  'No news is good news?' -or- 'Ignorance is bliss?'

Anyway- last night, finally, Casey called me and said she would go in today.
She is reluctant but wise.

She has two calls in to the clinic already. The first, before 8- was for the NP, and the 2nd for her doctor when her 1st call wasn't returned.

I just spoke to CaseyFace- SO tired she is, and is going to eat and lay down until she gets her call.
I would lie down a bit too, but if I do I will fall to sleep and never hear the phone. (Too bad she can't ring the smoke detector). hehehe

In the meanwhile I am wishing to thank everyone who is sending positive wishes, prayers, and smoke signals too.  Your many comments and checkbacks mean the world to me.
* Were it not for all of you, I would have gone crazy a long time ago.

Cousin Buttercup called after seeing my blog about Casey last night- (I didn't have any answers for her either, save that Casey had made up her mind to get checked out).

I also heard from my sister Barbara- As always to wish us well, to request updates and to make sure we knew she was praying hard for our Casey. 

And a very special thank you to my Miss Kelli also- who stopped by to ask, bringing CocoBeans with her- and taking my mind off this mess.
Who could worry when these 2 dogs were having so much fun?!

I promise to post more as I know.
My love to all.

XOXO
Me