The stent is out!

Yay, I'm so happy! Now we've got to cross our fingers that it was the source of the pain!

The procedure went pretty well. They only had to stick me twice for the IV. Then they gave me a shot of nausea medicine, which is nice because I was really nauseous and getting it by IV is much stronger/more effective. For the procedure, he wanted to do sedation rather then general like last time. Sadly, I have a high tolerance for pain medicine so they had to give me a TON of stuff to knock me out, which made waking up very difficult. But I finally cleared my head enough so they let me go home.

Everything about today was so unorganized. Yesterday, scheduling told me my appt was at 8:30. Then 2 hours later someone called to get insurance info, etc. She told me that my appt was at 8:00 and verified that since I was told 8:30 before. They called me back for all the prep, and then I sat around waiting for an hour. The GI clinic had 8:00 down and the drs had 8:30. Then, some nurses were saying I was having general anesthesia but others said just sedation. Amazing.

And to top it all off, my stent fell out by itself sometime between yesterday when I had the xray and this morning. So the whole procedure was unnecessary anyway.

Oh, and I meet with Dr. Khan on Monday afternoon. He is the GI/pancreas specialist to plan a path forward for me, including possibly the TP-IAT.

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