Angie Boyle's Blog   My Journey of a Pancreatectomy and Islet Autotransplantation

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Made it home Wednesday afternoon after a long day of packing and traveling.  We barely had room to pack, when your gone somewhere for 50 days you accumulate a lot of stuff!  6 Bags plus two packages fed-exed home.  Needless to say after packing and traveling i was very sore and exhausted.  The Day after coming […]

Wow day 50 I can’t believe its been that long or not very long. We got great news, its official we are going home to Colorado tomorrow!! My appointment went great with Dr. Dunn this afternoon. But I’m go home with my J-tube. Dr. Dunn wants me to go a week without needing nutritional supplemental feeding through the J-tube. […]

The last few days has been going pretty good. Dropped Insulin down to 4 today which is  a good thing, but I noticed my blood sugar has been a little high since.  Not to sure about why that’s happening but we will find out from Dr. Bellin tomorrow. So Great News, we are coming home […]

This is the 3rd day since the Gastric tube removal still very sore abdomen, but greatful it has been removed the pain has improved, I’am able to sit with more ease and able to take a deep breath without discomfort. Walking is easier as well, my J-tube(feeding tube) is still uncomfortable but tolerable. On Tuesday we […]

Well day started out a little rough, a lot of pain coming from my G-tube. If you ask me I think its because it was ready to come out. We had a check up for nutrients through blood work. While waiting we ran into Louise the Islet Auto Transplant Coordinator who organizes everything and appointments […]