My Visit to Good Sam....what ended up being my 4 day stay....2012

I am now home from the hospital after spending much too much time there!

 At this point they do not have an answer for what is going on with me...and have given me a lot of “no's" and not a single ""Yes, this is it!"

In a nutshell, after a week of what we thought was exhaustion and dehydration, I had become jaundiced and tested high in white blood counts and very high bilirubin counts...a CAT scan on Friday showed an enlarged liver and pancreas.

We got the initial blood results on Monday when my doc called and said get to the hospital NOW…I had been pre-admitted with an initial concern for some type of blood cancer, the tests began almost immediately to show no cancer or tumor markers though my liver enzymes continued to remain high and blood counts not altering much. The ultra sound showed the blood flow in and out of the liver was goodconcern for some type of blood cancer, the tests began almost immediately to show no cancer or tumor markers though my liver enzymes continued to remain high and blood counts not altering much. The ultra sound showed the blood flow in and out of the liver was good and the MRI showed there were no blockages of bile ducts or stones. I had a liver biopsy late Wednesday and after watching for concerns and taking more blood tests on Thursday, I was sent home to wait for the pathology reports to come back...which apparently can take up to a week...so better that I can wait at home and return to a more "normal" life style while I wait.

No medications were given to me in the hospital...only tests and more tests...they did not want to throw any meds into the liver to give it more work to do when it was already compromised. I do know that early on they were seeing things in the CT scan results that did not continue to show up in the MRI...

While there is confusion on what is going on...or rather what may have been beginning to go in internally, I am believing that God has stayed a life altering diagnosis, and answered our prayers with a healing. My doctor is not by nature an alarmist and would not have mentioned the possibility of cancer without having a strong case for believing it to be so.

I go back to the GI doc on the 27th and at that point hope to have some final answers...even if those answers end up being "we don't have any explanation"