{"id":454,"date":"2010-03-24T22:29:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T05:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/hultquist\/?p=454"},"modified":"2010-03-24T22:29:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T05:29:33","slug":"wednesday-enough-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY — Enough already !"},"content":{"rendered":"

A visiting doctor thought Nancy might be experience gastroparesis<\/em>. \u00a0This translates to stomach paralysis.\u00a0 Test will be on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Here is a link and the first paragraph there from:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.gi.org\/patients\/gihealth\/gastroparesis.asp<\/a><\/p>\n

>>Gastroparesis literally translated means \u201cstomach paralysis\u201d. Gastroparesis is a digestive disorder in which the motility of the stomach is either abnormal or absent. In health, when the stomach is functioning normally, contractions of the stomach help to crush ingested food and then propel the pulverized food into the small intestine where further digestion and absorption of nutrients occurs. When the condition of gastroparesis is present the stomach is unable to contract normally, and therefore cannot crush food nor propel food into the small intestine properly. Normal digestion may not occur.<<<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s events:\u00a0 All was progressing well today until after lunch.\u00a0 I had been talking to the nurse about having Nancy do more than just be in the bed.\u00a0 Could she walk around some?\u00a0 Was there a 4-wheeled walker around or could I bring one in?\u00a0 That sort of thing.<\/p>\n

There was a CWU EMT student there for the day so the nurse agreed to more exercise after she and the young man checked Nancy\u2019s vital signs as she moved about \u2013 sitting, standing, in and out of a chair.\u00a0 That all went well.\u00a0 So after a little exercise she got back into bed and I started to leave.\u00a0 At that point she expressed some stomach discomfort \u2013 like she had to burp.\u00a0 I urged her to sit up straight and do so.\u00a0 It was more than a burp.\u00a0 It was all the liquid she had consumed at lunch.\u00a0 She has learned to keep a pan handy and so all the mess was contained.<\/p>\n

Shortly thereafter the visiting \u201chospitalist\u201d came in and talked to Nancy and the others that had witnessed the event.\u00a0 She was less than surprised and based on Nancy\u2019s long stay in bed before and after surgery expressed her opinion that this would not be uncommon.<\/p>\n

She wanted Nancy to eat (mostly liquid and soft food tonight) and then nothing until they start the examination tomorrow.\u00a0 They will give her food with ingredients that will show on an X-ray and then over several hours and several pictures determine if the food stays in the stomach overly long.<\/p>\n

We will learn more tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A visiting doctor thought Nancy might be experience gastroparesis. \u00a0This translates to stomach paralysis.\u00a0 Test will be on Thursday. Here is a link and the first paragraph there from: http:\/\/www.gi.org\/patients\/gihealth\/gastroparesis.asp >>Gastroparesis literally translated means \u201cstomach paralysis\u201d. Gastroparesis is a digestive disorder in which the motility of the stomach is either abnormal or absent. In health, … Continue reading “WEDNESDAY — Enough already !”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-7k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}