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Hello again! Just wanted to update and let everyone know we were released yesterday. Only 4 days in the hospital when they had origionally told us 7-10! I guess it helps that they took much less intestine than they thought they were going to have to.....in the CT scans they were unable to...

Poor Guy keeps hiccuping When he wakes up. Seems very painful!

Hi everyone! Surgery went extremely well. He ended up with a resection, no illeostomy! He's in a decent amount of pain & still totally zonked out from the anesthesia and of course the lovely morphine drip. He declined the epidural. All in all I'd say the surgery lasted about 3 hours. They...

Hey all, just thought I'd update- Elijah finally started emptying out at 11:30 last night! Just in time to not have to go to the er! He's still having a little bit of solids pass. Hopefully that will be ok. Well, we're up and he's about to go take his second antibacterial shower. We have to...

Thanks, we just talked to the GI surgery resident & she said if he doesn't start emptying out by midnight we are to come into the ER....so we'll keep our fingers crossed for some urgent trips to the bathroom soon! Poor guy. He's such a champ with all of this....and it's such a rotten process...

Hmm...his abdomen is looking VERY distended...not just where the abscess and drain are, but all over....I've paged the GI doctor on call and am supposed to call back in 30 mins if we don't get a call back. Man, of all the nights for this to happen! Grr..

Shoot. Ok, Well....we have no contact information for the surgeon after hours but I suppose we can try and contact the GI Surgery Resident (it's a teching hospital- UNC) Do you think they'll push back the surgery?? We're supposed to be there at 7:30 tomorrow morning.

Hi Everyone! A little back up info- My Fiance was diagnosed in October of last year.....put on 40 mg pred taper with 6MP. In December we ended up in the ER and stayed in the hospital for a week. He has multiple abscesses, fistula, and a stricture in the terminal illium. We were sent home with...

Thanks again for the support everyone! They sent us home last night As his infection level has stayed on a downward trend. The jp drain will stay in place until surgery. We've got antibiotics and pain meds and instructions for doing saline flushes 3 times a day. We are meeting with the...

Hi everyone, I thought I'd post an update since you all were kind enough to respond to my question. We went into the ER first thing Monday morning and have been staying at the hospital since then. He did indeed have an abscess due to a perferation....and a fistula is forming. Apparently the...

Wow! That was a lot of responses very quickly! Thank you all so much! We looked over everything you guys said and He has a little bit of all of the above- We are forcing our way into the Dr's office tomorrow! We have an awesome specialist at UNC hospital- he has Crohns himself, and works...

Hi All, I'm so thankful that you are all here and so willing to share your stories and support one another. My name is Andrea, and My Fiance, Elijah was diagnosed with Crohns in October. We've always known it was possible due to a strong family history. I was wondering if anyone could...