Crohn’s Disease, Sarcoidosis, Hip Surgery and whatever else I have!

So, the day after I posted the blog entry below. The one where I’m giddy with joy about my hip working again, I find myself now writing this post from Littleton Adventist Hospital Room 502.

What happened you say?

They don’t know yet. All I know is I felt swell the morning of April 17th. I had walked around, thats right punk - you read that right, I walked. All unaided and such. And then I yawned. The deep breath about knocked me out with this off the scale pain - a stab under my armpit on the left side.We called the surgeon and his office said get to an E.R. right away.

So off to Littleton I go, and here I sit as I write this. Could be blood clots, could be pneumonia and could be something squirrelly with my lymph-nodes. These aren’t new things they are all related in some way to the surgery. As far as that goes I’m healing good, its just these latest things screw up any chance of a speedy recovery.

But as the post below reflects, I’m still silly giddy happy about the hip surgery. What bums me out is that this latest turn in my health surprised no one so I have no one to say “see I told ya something would go wrong”.

Ahhhh, my lovely luck.

UPDATE:
Well I wanted to update you all that as of April 19th I was released from the hospital however I have to make an appointment with Dr. Guber for an out-patient procedure. In a nut-shell, I need to have my lymph nodes tested and there is a slim chance that there could be Lymphoma present. The procedure I need done is not very complex. I get knocked out, a tube gets inserted in my neck and fished down my chest to the different lymph nodes and a chunk is taken and tested. Only then will we know if we are dealing with something minor and treatable or the end of the person you know as Max.

I’m not too worried at the moment simply because of a few things. This would of, or may have shown up in the testing I had done prior to surgery and it didn’t…as far as I know. Also, I am healing well - with as far as I can tell, no infections or any complications from the surgery. Hell I am walking unaided now. No walker, crutches or cane. You won’t see me as a runway model anytime soon, but I’m walking. Granted I know shit from shine-ola when it comes to lymph nodes and cancer but it all just seems sudden to have developed this. My hope is that its something minor.

And since coming home, the pains in my chest have lessen. I can take a deep breath with no pain. Some of you have asked why Lymphoma and cancer as well as how it’s related to Crohn’s. Or what brought this on, is it out of the blue. Basically, if indeed I have developed Lymphoma it could be from the Humira injections I receive for controlling Crohn’s. There is a risk from that. Once again, the treatment can be worse than the disease. If this is not Lymphoma I have to then deal with possibly getting off Humira just from the scare alone which then puts me at risk of another flare of Crohn’s. I am yet to be afforded any win - win scenarios. Most are loose - loose. BUT only time and the testing will tell.

So the next time I post, unless something out of the blue happens, it will be the results of the test and we’ll all know if there will be future bloggings and content or if this was yet another bump in the road to my recovery. That’s the latest as of April 20th, 2008.