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
[Homestead] Crohn's Disease,
Don Bowen, 08/18/2010