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NorthernRedneck

......and the saga continues. Been feeling like crap for four days. Pain from the hernia is sometimes unbearable. Now a combination of the meds I'm on has taken a toll. I had to stop the blood thinner last week for the scope. When I was on it before everything was good. Starting back up on it triggered something and combined with the iron supplement I'm on it made me quite sick.

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......and the saga continues. Been feeling like crap for four days. Pain from the hernia is sometimes unbearable. Now a combination of the meds I'm on has taken a toll. I had to stop the blood thinner last week for the scope. When I was on it before everything was good. Starting back up on it triggered something and combined with the iron supplement I'm on it made me quite sick.

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Hang in there buddy, things will get better. Lot's of prayers on this forum for you and regardless of what many say today, prayer works. :clap:
 
Thanks. It just seems that this is a never ending battle and new things keep coming up.

Good news though. Through all these latest developments my back is now slowly getting better this past week. My physiotherapists wife is also a physiotherapist with a private practice dealing solely with women who have given birth. She's taught my physiotherapist how to treat torn ab muscles. Seems to be working so far. A lot of the back problems apparently were a result of the back compensating for the pain in the abs I didn't realize I was feeling.

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Another day another appointment. My liver specialist is stumped. The scope he tried last week had little success. In his words "you have a serious but non life threatening issue with the liver." Question is now what to do about it. He's consulting with some of the best liver surgeons in the country to see what to do about it now.

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Another day another appointment. My liver specialist is stumped. The scope he tried last week had little success. In his words "you have a serious but non life threatening issue with the liver." Question is now what to do about it. He's consulting with some of the best liver surgeons in the country to see what to do about it now.

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Damn. Good luck with that Brian. Hopefully they figure it out real soon.
 
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Another day another appointment. My liver specialist is stumped. The scope he tried last week had little success. In his words "you have a serious but non life threatening issue with the liver." Question is now what to do about it. He's consulting with some of the best liver surgeons in the country to see what to do about it now.

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They'll figger it out. Obviously your doctor is smart enough to know what he does not know and knows where to go to get answers. Things will work out.
 
Yes. Now it's an issue of 2 options. 1. Going in and removing the bad part of the liver. 2. Injecting something to kill off the bad part of the liver. Either way. I've currently got a reduced liver function.

One thing that did come out of this mornings appointment is that I am able to stop the blood thinner completely.
It ran me through the ringer this week. I had no side effects for 6 months. After the scope I started it back up and some very nasty side effects began to take shape in the form of a black tar-like stool 9-10 times a day mixed with bleeding. Also feverish symptoms. After stopping the thinner those slowly went away. Now if I could just get a good night sleep I'd be happy.


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Finally slept straight through the past two nights. Went to service this morning and halfway through my legs began cramping and feet tingling. I was barely able to walk out of there and now it's a struggle again to make it from the living room to the kitchen. Once again I'll be out of commission for a couple days. This is what gets VERY depressing. When I start to make some headway then have a setback. Frustrates the heck out of me and almost makes me want to give up.

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I've heard that the liver is a pretty tough organ. Mine sure must be (no joke intended) it survived my years of hard drinking.
Talk to your Dr. about it see what he thinks.
God bless.
 
That's the thing. My liver is what it is. The doctors are dealing with it accordingly. Problem is everything else. From the ground up......first there's the blood clot which I was on a thinner for. Now that I'm not on it anymore there is increased risk of developing another clot in the future.

Working upwards there's the liver issues. Then there's a rather large hernia about the size of a softball which will eventually get addressed. Staying on the front there is the initial cut when the accident occurred. It runs from my ribcage to my waste line. When they cut through the muscles it left a lot of scar tissue that we're also dealing with. Moving upward there's my lungs which basically filled with fluid and needed to be drained. They weren't able to drain everything originally and small pockets of fluid remained. This means a reduced lung capacity. For the past couple weeks I've been experiencing bouts of shortness of breath where I'm going to pass out and need to sit down for a few minutes. My last chest scan showed that there's still pockets of fluid.

Working around to the back. Some days I feel good and hardly any pain. Then it will flare up like today and I can barely move. When it flares up the muscles inflame and pinch nerves going to my legs causing cramping from the knees down and loss of feeling in my feet.

So, in a nutshell, that's what I'm going through.

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Hang tough my friend. As you said there are those that are a lot worse off. It's just really hard to feel positive when you're in pain all of the time.
 
Exactly. And accepting that I can't do half of the stuff I used to be able to do. It's hard taking it one day at a time and not knowing if I'll be able to sleep that night or if I'll be able to walk. The other day I did over 6000 steps. Today I barely made 850.

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Well here we go again. I sleep good for 3-4 nights then wake up in pain at 2am with my back burning and this stupid hernia wanting to pop out of my stomach. At least I'm doing something about it. I had an orthopedic consult a couple days ago to see about getting a hernia support strap. Problem is that an off the shelf one won't work as I have the liver drain to deal with for at least a few more months.

As the weather is getting nicer it's getting harder to just sit on my ass watching the world go by. So many things I want to do but can't do half of what I used to before the accident. People tell me to be thankful that I am alive. I am. But most days I'm just that....alive. not actually living. When there's so many things that I want to do but can't that's not living. Just existing.

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Thanks. I am trying to stay positive. It's easier staying active out at camp. I managed to get a lot done today so far. The atv shed is temporarily fixed. The boat is uncovered and battery installed. I just took the boys to get us enough firewood for tonight. Next is folding a few tarps though the beer is tasting pretty good right now.

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Well, this week has been a rough one so far. Think I overdid it a bit at camp last weekend. The legs basically gave out on me and I've been barely able to walk all week with the legs cramping and feet tingling. It's frustrating as hell as last week I felt fine and almost felt as though I'd be able to manage at work if it wasn't for the liver drain. I actually started walking around without the cane last week. This week I can barely make it 10 feet without the cane for support. Oh well, welcome to my life. I've been basically sitting at home in pain for 3 days staring out the window. Damn it gets depressing.
 
So I had a bit of news yesterday when my doctor called me. He had been waiting to hear back from the liver surgeons in s Ontario to decide what kind of surgery I would need. There was apparently a team of specialists reviewing my case. They eventually came to the conclusion that the doctor here would remove the drain and see what happens. Let nature take its course. If it was draining 100ml of fluid a day they would operate. Because it's only draining roughly 15ml a day they want to try this first. Frustrating to say the least. I'm now 11 months into this.

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Meanwhile I decided to take a picture since I took the bandages off to let the drain air out a few minutes before the nurse came. It was starting to blister and become irritated around the drain.

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So I've been a hurting unit for a couple days. My abs have been burning from my ribs to waistline. This all due to the hernia and the muscle damage. I still can't wear a hernia belt so we tried something different by taping the area where the hernia is located. Basically take a breath in, tape the area then let out. I was surprised. It took some getting used to but it feels better now.

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The relief was short lived. We pulled the tape off the next day and a thin layer of skin came with it. So now I'm dealing with that as well.

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Oh good Lord Redneck you are going through more than anyone should ever have to. I don't know how you can. You must be a man of great courage.
 
I've just learned to laugh it off now. Good ole Murphys law. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong with me. It does get frustrating at times. Heck. Yesterday I felt not to bad so I joined the wife in some grocery shopping last night. We were only in the store for 20 minutes and I was nearly crawling by the time I got out. Knocked the hell out of me. Only thing that keeps me going sometimes is knowing there are others out there who have it way worse than me.

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Fired up the electric scooter today and took it to physio since the truck was still in the shop. Thankfully physio is only a couple blocks away. So I am told the drain will come out next Friday.

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