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Originally Posted by swatsurgeon
Actually, duodenal ulcer pain, duodenitis, gastritis or ulcer, gallbladder disease and colitis can all present with symptoms in the same general location. The key is PAIN IS A SIGN OF A PROBLEM!!!!
Significant pain" doubled me over" is the warning shot over the bow (to use a navy phrase...you guys just shot to kill, not warn them you're there!!) so seek medical attention for those complaints.
Glad you're not perf'ed or hemorrhaging...both of which may require the use of one of us friendly surgeons....damn fun case too..........
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Glad that you weighed in on this thing, I had been experiencing RUQ pain for awhile but not this severe. Nancy kept insisting that it was probably due to Adhesions (I wasn't buying that), I couldn't see how something that occurred just about 40 years ago could come back this severely, in a fairly short period of time.
So she spent about 3 hours getting my history re abdominal traumas, I found out something about myself during that 3 hour period. I could sit down with any one of my buddies and after awhile I would have no problem swapping "War Stories", but it was like pulling teeth when Nancy was asking direct questions re being cut, bayonetted, or shot.
I would hope that everyone learns from my stupidity. Part of the discussion went something like this, Nancy "Well how did you get that scar on your abdomen?" Me "Someone stuck a knife in me." "What kind of knife?" "A large bayonet." "So they stabbed you with a large bayonet?" "No, someone stuck a large bayonet on the end of his rifle through me." "What did you do then?" "I killed him" "How" "With my hands" "Barehanded?" "No, I had a knife." "Why didn't you shoot him?" "No bullets" "So how did you kill him with a knife?" "I had to crowd him" "Why?" "Because he had the advantage, of a long bayonet on the end of his rifle." "So what did you do exactly?" "I got close to him so that he couldn't use his bayonet again, and I killed him with my knife." "How?" "I crowded him and stuck the knife into his belly and reached for his heart." "Why is the scar so long, it must me 18 inches?" "Because I was opened up to check for internal damage, but there was none." "How can a bayonet penetrate through you, without damaging your liver, or your intestines, etc, etc?" "Because their bayonets had no sharp edges, the end looked like a large flat screwdriver, and the rest of it was fluted. It was spring loaded to lay flat along the barrel and stock, and when you would work against the spring to open it, it clipped over the end of the barrel."
This interview went on for approx three hours, three hours the physician who would be seeing me didn't have to spare, Nancy then spent approximate two hour
condensing, and consolidating the report which I presented to the Doctor.
I will try to find her report, and post it.
Terry