Had to have that removed several years ago. Can't live without a pancreas, though, so there's that. I just ate a small bowl of cottage cheese but too late noticed it is not lowfat CC. Hopefully I tolerate it. If you all never hear from me again, it's been nice knowing ya!
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Had to have that removed several years ago. Can't live without a pancreas, though, so there's that. I just ate a small bowl of cottage cheese but too late noticed it is not lowfat CC. Hopefully I tolerate it. If you all never hear from me again, it's been nice knowing ya!
You’ll be fine.
Wife Carey had her gall bladder removed too. She gets abdominal pains and has trouble with passing food if she eats too much fat. We’ve added a lot more greens to our diets.Pancreatitis is a little more serious than gall bladder disease, since the pancreas creates caustic enzymes that leak out during an attack, causing the pancreas to start digesting itself, which causes it to release more enzymes, which can ultimately lead you to digest all of your internal organs. It's not uncommon to not survive it. I've been incredibly lucky; I have this genetic proclivity toward it and have had three attacks so far, but I have never had an attack that was severe enough to be life-threatening. Hoping I never do.You’ll be fine.
I hope you survive the cottage cheese. I will never die from eating it unless I overdose on lasagna.
So far, so good. I just had a meatless sausage and some salad for dinner. We'll see how that sits.
When one is admitted to the hospital for this, the standard treatment is nothing by mouth for several days, if not a week or more. Nothing, including water. The goal is to keep the pancreas from becoming stimulated to create more enzyme and give it a chance to heal. So I'm being a bit optimistic eating, but this wasn't a severe attack, so I think I'll be ok. I was just looking for my insurance card when it started to subside; typically it waits until I'm in the ER to do that. I've never actually been admitted since my attacks so far are relatively brief.
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I just hate getting the hospital staff all excited.
Radiology and labs at the main hospital here require a computer check-in before you take the paperwork to the greeter. The smaller hospital lab only asks I print my name and time of arrival. The lab tech just calls the next on the list. Kind of civilized. For what it is.
Radiology and labs at the main hospital here require a computer check-in before you take the paperwork to the greeter. The smaller hospital lab only asks I print my name and time of arrival. The lab tech just calls the next on the list. Kind of civilized. For what it is.
During my first pancreatitis attack I was sitting at the intake desk trying to answer the questions; I was in so much pain I couldn't bear it and I just slid out of the chair to the floor and started rolling around down there. I learned that day that this is a very quick way to get through intake and into a bed. Staff ran out, peeled me off the floor, put me into a wheelchair and I went back and was given painkillers and an IV drip. Handy trick.
Tonight's sunset in Ketchikan.
My cousin in Ketchikan posted this picture from his town. Ketchikan is where I was born. We lived there for many years until my dad got a job as a teen counselor in a BIA boarding school in Wrangell.
My cousin in Ketchikan posted this picture from his town. Ketchikan is where I was born. We lived there for many years until my dad got a job as a teen counselor in a BIA boarding school in Wrangell.
Nice sunset, or not setting, depending, I suppose, on the time of year, eh?
Best band name of 2019!!
y’all have time to Top That...it’s only August...but Day~Um!!
y’all have time to Top That...it’s only August...but Day~Um!!
It only qualifies if it is really setting, ya' know. Alaska, and all.Stunning shot...
There’s a ‘Sunset’ thread.
You really oughta share...
Really is a lovely shot. Alaska truly is beautiful.
Right. Because most of Firesign Theatre was actually true to life stories and regaling.
Do you consider yourself a Bozo, or a Bolo?
Hmmmmm?!
Hmmmmm?!
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Yeah...it’s the Bozo bus
for me...
for me...
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