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Well, it has been quite an eventful 24 hours. As I mentioned before, I've been feeling pretty lousy - increased pain, nausea and vomiting. I haven't been able to really eat anything, which I'm sure played a large part in my incredible fatigue and exhaustion. Just yesterday, I was brought to tears after taking a shower because I was so tired and frustrated by feeling like I'm losing ground here. Last night around dinnertime, I started to spike a fever. This was actually a relief because it points toward me having an infection somewhere rather than just being crazy. Then in the middle of the night last night, I was awakened by this horrible pain in some of my joints. The worst was in one of my toes on my left foot - truly excruciating. I know that sounds silly (it sure does to me!), but MAN it hurt. Also my right knee and my right elbow. I couldn't bear any weight at all on my foot. I ended up pushing myself around in one of my mom's chairs so I could get some ice for my foot and knee. I also emailed Louise with all this info. She called me first thing this morning to find out exactly what was going on. I had read somewhere that Creon can cause joint pain, but Louise thinks it's related more to the infection I had than the Creon. So, she faxed over some orders for blood draws and cultures STAT. Dr. Dunn also wanted a CT scan of my abdomen, so Louise had to try to coordinate something with a local hospital for me. They were willing to do the CT, but needed an order from an AZ doctor. So Louise is trying to contact my GI in Tucson to see if he would be willing to sign an order, but she couldn't get
anybody there to return her phone calls, so eventually she got in touch with my primary care doc. Then the hospital had to get prior auth from my insurance co. It was just a big mess and so many people from so many places just bent over backwards to fit me in for this test.

I don't know any of the test results yet. Louise emailed me earlier and said that my blood work looked "not too bad" whatever that means. She is going to call me as soon as the CT results come in. My guess is that it will be tomorrow. So, please pray that they find something, but that it is minor. I really hope that there's something that we can point to as the cause of why I've been feeling so lousy, but nothing that requires any surgical intervention. I'll let everyone know as soon as I hear something.

Megan