If she had Pancreatic Cancer, there’s a 95% chance it metastasized into other organs, even though scans said it didn’t. It’s the most insidious cancer there is.
I was in the hospital for 23 days, as the DRs thought I had it, but it wound-up being Severe/Acute Pancreatitis I lost 131-lbs and died 2x, but they brought me back.
Sad to say that RBG is probably on her way out.
“DRs thought I had it, but it wound-up being Severe/Acute Pancreatitis I lost 131-lbs and died 2x, but they brought me back.”
Just wow. You’re literally a survivor. I couldn’t imagine going through something like that. Kudos.
You lost 131 pounds in 23 days?! Good lord!
It is caused almost exclusively from binge dinking alcohol. Many of the patients are college kids who drink to excess because for the first time their lives, they can without somebody to say slow down.
The other category of patients who get it are middle age alcoholics who drink more than just socially. My doctor told me that together, these two groups make up 95-98% of all cases they see.
Problem with both times I had it was that I didn't drink alcohol....at all. My house doctor that saw me in the hospital insisted I tell her how much a I drank and how often. She still didn't believe me, despite my protestations. She sent me home, with the advice not to drink.
The second time I got it, my wife had to come in and convince the doctor that I was telling the truth. I didn't touch alcohol.
After further investigation, the second doctor found that a very small percentage of acute pancreatitis cases were caused from taking a certain class of blood pressure medications. I was on one of them. He switched my medications and I've never had a problem since.
But my experience in the hospital was much milder than your story. I felt severe abdominal pain from the inflammation of my gut but to treat it, they gave me intravenous saline with no food or water or even ice chips for 5 days straight until the inflammation abated.
Thinking that I would lose weight from not eating for days, I was startled when I got home and realized that I had gained weight, not lost it. After consulting with my doctor about it, he told me that because they had fill me with water intravenously over the 5 day stay, that I had gained weight from the water.
Water weighs about 8 lbs. to the gallon. About what I had gained. He said the weight would eventually slough off because it was water and it did.
So tell us, carriage_hill, how bad of a drunk are you? :-)
So sorry for your suffering. I hope you are feeling better now. My husband was diagnosed with a Stage 4 GBM brain tumor, and he was dead in 15 days. (He died 6 years ago today). They thought the tumor might have seeded from his lungs, which brain tumors often do. They did several scans, but there was nothing in his lungs. (He never smoked.) It was an isolated tumor. I wouldn’t be surprised if RBG has mets in her brain.