As many of you know from my previous two posts, my companion Ellen has been dealing with gallbladder problems.  With fearless vulnerability she has engaged the medical establishment to resolve this issue surgically.  This was a necessary choice as it turns out.  She has had gallstones for at least 15 years (possibly many more), and her recent rash of gallbladder attacks was just too much.  Once the surgeon opened her up we found out why.  It seems the chronic inflammation in the gallbladder was promoting the formation of massive amounts of scar tissue around not only the gallbladder, but the liver and bile ducts.  This cause is a guess as her amount of scar tissue is not normal.  The surgeon said he had never seen such a bad case.  The scar tissue had deformed the organs in the area and pulled the duct system from the liver over 3 inches to the right from where it should have been.

Well Ellen has been in the hospital since April 21st.  Her blood levels of bilirubin (a liver waste product) have been going up and down and the surgical drain from the wound site has had varying levels of blood and bile from day to day.  During the surgery he almost cut through the common bile duct as it was not where it was supposed to be.  It was an intuition hit that something was wrong while he was poking around that kept him from snipping what looked like a lump of scar tissue.  In the mess at least one other smaller duct was cut and then tied off, but they were not sure that it was the only one.  Last Friday night the doctor ordered another MRI scan to try to find the source the varying drainage and blood levels by looking for either a blockage or a leak.

This morning (Saturday) we got the good news report that everything was looking good on the MRI.  The doctor wanted to do one other procedure to suck out any blood and bile that had leaked down into Ellen's lower abdomen this morning.  She called me at 10:30 to say they had come to get her for the procedure.  I am writing this as this is being done, after which I will be going down to the hospital to check on her.  If all goes well she will be able to come home in a couple days.

As we were chatting earlier this morning she was telling me that she wants to use this experience as the first step in a rejuvenation program for herself.  She has found the whole experience to be a wonderful growing opportunity, although she really did not like all the pain.  She has been making lots of friends at the hospital by getting to know all about the lives of the different nurses she has had.  She found her most recent nurse had just finished a book about her life growing up in Kenya and the courage needed to change out of the life she knew.

Take care of yourself.

Good Journey,

 

 

david@fairoakshealth.com

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years.  He began experimenting with  medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis.  In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education.  Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic.  He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice. 
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health. 
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities. 
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth.  The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework.  Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

Dr David DeLapp DC
Chiropractor

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