Back Story

 

January 25, 2022

 

I had entered Sister's Emergency Room sometime at the end of January with complaints of vomiting and severe stomach pains. They admitted me with a bowel blockage and gave me a GI tube.  Three days later said the "obstruction" remedy itself and I was released.  

February I was off and on liquid diets and soft foods but, was still suffering from the same problems.  I ended up in the ER Department once again in February and the exact thing happened.  Ran CT shows a blockage...couple days later the "obstruction" remedy itself.  At this time, I have lost 15 pounds.  Not exactly how my gastro doctor had wanted me to lose some weight.

All during this time, I have left several messages and spoken to my gastro doctor, Vickram Vattipally on numerous occasion

  March 11, 2022

March 9, 2022 (bile from NG Tube)

We are now in March and after I taped a show on Tuesday, I was so sick I had to excuse myself to go throw up in the bathroom.  Friday comes and I no longer can take the pain or the vomiting.  I call and speak to Dr. Vattipally and he states, you have to go in and we have to see what is going on.  Whether you go today or tomorrow, we will have to perform laparoscopic surgery to see what's going on. Needless to say, I had surgery March 9 and 4 days later I had surgery #2 where they made a cut straight down my stomach.  The surgery was preformed by an associate in my gastro office, Dr. Cavaretta.

  March 6, 2022

On March 23, 2022, the day before Sister's Hospital was going to send me home, my doctor, Surgeon Doctor Cavaretta, who had been out of town came into my room (it was sometime after 6 pm.) with wide eyes and a piece of paper in his hand.  He continued to explain he had been checking on me all day while he was away from the hospital, and he had just gotten off the phone with the pathologist and as he proceeded to the hospital to see me.

Well, it turns out...the obstruction was an adenocarcinoma  

                                           "I'm sorry Mrs. Bellamy you have CANCER."