Hugs, W, sounds just awful.

Let me introduce you to my pancreas. It sucks. Once upon a time, I started a new job and had routine bloodwork done as part of the pre-employment physical. My liver enzymes were slightly elevated, so I was referred to a specialist. The GI specialist decided to do an ERCP to find out what was going on.

A month later, I woke up on a morphine drip in the hospital having been out of commission due to pancreatitis. I awoke to find that I’d missed the Red Sox winning the World Series, never mind a month of work and time with my family, including my father, who was dying of lung cancer.

I have been diagnosed with ideopathic chronic pancreatitis (in other words, no one knows where the hell it comes from). From time to time, I end up in the hospital for a week. There is some correlation between my episodes and foods high in fat, but there have been times I’ve gone to town at McDonald’s with nary a twinge of pain and other times I’ve had salad with light dressing and ended up in the hospital.

Bottom line, having a condition that no one can explain (and I’ve been to many, many specialists and had numerous surgeries) sucks balls. I know that my pain isn’t your pain, but I just felt compelled to share.

Be well <3

Since then,