Pete’s Musings

I was in the midst of writing a huge and awesome blog post about my surgery … when I accidentally hit the backspace key outside of a text box! In firefox, that means that the page goes back to previous in history and I LOST THE POST. I was devastated. Not only was it thorough and well written, it was funny. I wanted to cry. Anyway, I guess I’ll get back to it soon, but in the meantime I decided to make a few changes here.

1) I added a message me box to the right. If you write me a message there it goes directly to my new Instant Messaging software. If you stick around, Read More »

I’m at home this weekend on a bit of a break from the tests at the hospital. “Conge” as the french nurses call it, which means vacation. LoL. Not quite that, but it does feel good to be home and I’m doing pretty well. Sleeping solid for 6-8 hours 2 nights in a row. Still able to do a bit of work like dishes and cleaning a bit of the fridge. Still have the pain in my gut when up and about for a while, but nothing too intense. Haven’t had any intense pain in my liver/gallbladder area since my last night in the hospital 3 days ago. Then it lasted for 4-5 hours and required a shot of pain killer. I think it was brought on by ‘trying too hard’ to produce a stool, which makes since as this is what also seemed to immediately precede my second ‘episode’ on Friday (two weeks ago now).
Doctors still haven’t given me a clear idea of what’s going on and Read More »

It’s been over 3 weeks since I had my liver biopsy and I’ve been worried and sick ever since. I know something is very wrong in there and just don’t know what’s can be done about it. As I said in last post, I had to go to the hospital a week after the biopsy because I was feeling so horrible and in pain. The pain has subsided a bit … but only if I don’t really do anything at all. That’s no way to live for sure.

I went in for another blood test today, Read More »

Things have finally calmed down in my system so I can blog. Feels that way anyway, future tests will show over the next month.

About 10 days ago I had my third liver biopsy since this whole mess started about 2.5 years ago. Another transjugular biopsy done at the Royal Victoria hospital in Montreal. It’s supposed to be a more or else routine and safe day-long thing … but I guess it was not so for me. Read More »