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Friday, February 23, 2007

Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile,
The girl with colitis goes by

Meegan has been very sick all week and spent most of it in the hospital. She came down with C. diff colitis, a bacterial infection of the colon, after taking antibiotics for strep throat a couple weeks ago and working around sick kids for her clinical training.
She was in a ton of abdominal pain; originally the doctors thought she might have appendicitis. They prepped her for a colonoscopy on Wednesday (a real treat) and then made a diagnosis without needing the procedure.
Doctor: "Um, on second thought, we won't have to shove a camera up your butt, but thanks so much for spending an excrutiating day on the toilet getting ready for it anyway. N'kay?"
Okay, I shouldn't make jokes about her illness. It sucked. Because it's really contagious, Nicholas couldn't even visit her in the hospital until today. Anyway, both of us are glad she's finally out. She'll be on the mend for several weeks, so please pray for her.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Some of my family members have colitis, and their type isn't contaigious. I know some colon issues are related to a wheat allergy, I hope that's not what she has. Hopefully she'll get better soon. That must be scary!

9:20 AM

 

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