In a 5 month period I had several healthy scares or instances of unpleasantness.

I started losing weight quickly and my abdomen hurt when I ate.  In November of 2008 I first had my appendix removed.  It was done laparoscopically for which they filled my abdomen up with gas which is why it is so bloated. I don’t normally look like this.  In addition, they saved off all my stomach hair which was weird.

About December 2008 I started to feel crappy again and I was having the same kind of pain I had before the appendix was removed.  And the pain was in the same area. Plus the weight loss was still happening.   After about a month and a half of testing I finally had a colonoscopy done.  A tumor about the size of a ping-pong ball was found in my colon at the hepatic flexure.  Three days later on February 15, 2009 I found myself in the emergency room where I had a third of my colon removed.  The surgery is called a right hemicolectomy.  It seems that not only did I have the tumor but I also had intussusception happening.  This is where the colon actually was growing over itself or sleeving itself.  At this point I had dropped from 172 lbs to about 145 lbs.

Within another month I started to feel that something was wrong again.  After a couple of days where I felt like I had a fever and my lower back hurt, one evening I ended up dropping to the floor in pain.  I passed out for a couple hours but when I awoke I felt odd.  Every time I went to the bathroom things just didn’t feel right.  I started a whole new array of testing.  It took about a month and I finally passed a kidney stone that was about ¼ inch long.

During the testing for the what turned out to be the kidney stone it was discovered I had a hernia.  So the first week of June 2009 I went in for a hernia surgery.  This actually turned out to be the most painful for some reason.  The surgery didn’t hurt so much.  The recovery was rough though.  It was harder to move around due to the location of the wound from the hernia than the previous operations were.  And I made a bad mistake by not prepping properly before surgery.  I should have eaten nothing but vegetables and fibrous foods at least 3 days before surgery.  Reason being that everything needs to be able to pass through you easily after surgery.  I believe the anesthesia tends to clog you up and because you can’t push due to the location of the hernia wound, going to the bathroom is brutal.  Enough said.

So it has been an interesting year.  I guess I should have started using my Omega 8003 juicer sooner.