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  • From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Crohn's Disease
  • Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:50:07 -0500

I am looking for links and information on Crohn's Disease? I have done some research and am loooking for more first hand information. A list member emailed some information several months ago and now I am looking for more.

I am currently in North Carolina, planning on leaving in the morning. My daughter in law has Crohn's and has had several nasty bouts. They have attempted to control with medicines with some success but she is getting worse. This last weekend she had a reaction to a treatment. It is a very expensive bi monthly treatment ($8000) and was a last effort before surgery. The reaction caused her heart began to fail then her lungs filled. She was put in ICU, heavily sedated and had breathing help. Early Sunday morning our son called and was in tears, she was given a less than 50% chance of survival. So by mid morning we were heading for Asheville.

I had spent the last two weeks in California getting my little pickup and a backup generator. I left Sunnyvale on Thursday morning heading east and onto a miserable trip. I had to buy four tires, take a tow truck ride, fight with the spare tire carrier in deep dust, and was the second person to come upon a nasty accident. All in all not a trip to repeat. I arrived home late Saturday night and headed east mid Sunday morning.

She has been steadily improving all week and today they took her off sedation and breathing assistance. She came around and this evening was able to talk with us and may be taken out of ICU tomorrow. Sometime in the next 7 to 10 days she will have an operation on her Colon.

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Don Bowen KI6DIU





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