Sister Update #3

My sister has kind of been on a roller coaster ride the past few days.  She improves for a couple of days and then a bad day follows.  On the good days her body is functioning properly to get rid of the waste, and on the bad days the waste just remains in her stomach causing it to swell and give her horrible pain, and nausea and vomiting follow.  Yesterday she thought of something that might be the cause... the normal medications she takes for her autoimmune diseases are very large pills in capsule form.  She noticed on her bad days when things got "backed up" and made her vomit that she was vomiting the capsules.  She realized that the pills were not completely dissolving and were therefore clogging her gut and not allowing waste through.  When she mentioned this to the nurses and surgeon they seemed to blow her off and not really pay much attention to what she was saying.  Then yesterday afternoon she finally got through to a med student who decided to try something and see if it worked.  They started crushing her medication yesterday afternoon and her body started functioning again!  Her stomach swelling has gone completely down, the nausea has passed, and she is able to pass waste!

Please continue to pray for her.  Hopefully they have truly figured out the cause of her discomfort and she will be able to go home soon.  She has now been in the hospital for 11 days and there is no place she would rather be than home!