What Else?

Once again I know I had not posted for a few days and some of you might be wondering what is happening to me? I had consciously not posted anything because I do not wish my post to be just about the pain and the discomfort. It would either be the pain is here and then there, how it is giving me sleepless night or the discomfort is making me less willing to move about as every step that I take focuses somehow onto the bloated feeling in the stomach. I am also not quite up to writing as most of my time was spent lying or sitting down or sleeping.

I still have to put in some update but what else can I write?

For those hoping for something a little different and perhaps uplifting, I have to disappoint you for a little longer.

The new medication is helping but only to a certain extend as the pain still comes and go but at lesser intensity. Occasionally, there will be a sharp pain that runs through from my right side near the stomach to the middle of the chest on the right. I’m still talking the morphine but I had reduced the amount I took as the pain is less intense. Since what I am having is Radiation Gastritis, I’m assuming that the vomiting is part of it too. In the last one week, I had vomited three times from bloated-ness but I believe this is not because of the duodenum obstruction like the last time but simply because of the direct effect of having Gastritis. I really got to watch the quantum, the frequency and the texture (not too hard) of the food that I eat. In the meanwhile, I will having to depend a little more on the Glucerna supplement for my nutrient intake.

Josie is coping as best as she could and emotionally she is far stronger now than she was when this journey started. I believe God’s gift of Nathan had helped in this development as she has sort of a “distraction” and also a reason to remain strong. I wonder how she would have coped if all her attentions and focus is just on me alone and seeing what I am going through especially during this period when I’m having this Gastritis.

As a kind of record, I had asked Josie to take pictures of me while I sleep, sit of simply lying down and the various postures that I adopt just to ease the pain and discomfort. I kind of joked that I could be a yoga teacher because some of the posture I had adopted would showcase my flexibility.

In God We Trust and in Christ alone my hope is found.

Hebrews 11:1