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3:41pm May 2, 2013
jennyhenk: Gastro = stomach, paresis = paralysis A college friend of mine has GP, and she has had a colossal struggle to stay alive the last few years. Basically, her stomach doesn’t work. Anything she puts in it comes right back out. Shawna has been fighting malnutrition for years — do you know how hard it is for the human body to stay nourished when you can’t put food into the stomach? She’s had to go back and forth between IV nutrition and a tube that puts nutrition directly into her intestines (which don’t work that great themselves, she’s had many surgeries and problems with adhesions, etc.). She’s spent months at a time in the hospital and has survived multiple bouts of sepsis. She has an infrequently updated blog here. Anyway, you probably have never heard of gastroparesis. But now you have. Ugh. I wonder if that’s where I’m headed. None of my digestive tract is wonderful, but right now the feeding tube is working for the most part. But my gastroparesis has been getting so bad, so fast, that I know this is more of a reprieve than something that will permanently work.

jennyhenk:

Gastro = stomach, paresis = paralysis

A college friend of mine has GP, and she has had a colossal struggle to stay alive the last few years. Basically, her stomach doesn’t work. Anything she puts in it comes right back out. Shawna has been fighting malnutrition for years — do you know how hard it is for the human body to stay nourished when you can’t put food into the stomach? She’s had to go back and forth between IV nutrition and a tube that puts nutrition directly into her intestines (which don’t work that great themselves, she’s had many surgeries and problems with adhesions, etc.). She’s spent months at a time in the hospital and has survived multiple bouts of sepsis. She has an infrequently updated blog here.

Anyway, you probably have never heard of gastroparesis. But now you have.

Ugh. I wonder if that’s where I’m headed. None of my digestive tract is wonderful, but right now the feeding tube is working for the most part. But my gastroparesis has been getting so bad, so fast, that I know this is more of a reprieve than something that will permanently work.