At 4 a.m. I awoke to the sounds of screaming. \u00a0There was a doctor and a nurse in our room packing yards of gauze into Lennie’s rectum, trying to stop the bleeding. \u00a0The screams were Lennie’s screams as he bit into his pillow, not being able to stand the pain…..<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day Lennie was having his treatments and we were talking at how astonished we were that he was now pain free after his 2 1\/2 hour surgery a week prior. \u00a0It was only two days after surgery that Lennie was back at Hope4Cancer and Dr Jiminez was calling him ‘Miracle Man’. \u00a0He was up and walking the day after surgery, and that morning was his last dose of pain medication. \u00a0He has a catheter in his chest, a seven inch incision down the middle of his stomach, a colostomy with stitches inside and out and hemmorhoid surgery with numerous contusions and stitches. \u00a0And no pain. \u00a0Lennie was like a superhero with superpowers to be able to heal so quickly. \u00a0Only in the wee hours of the morning did he usually have to call the nurses for some pain medication to ease the discomfort of the area where the colostomy bag now is. \u00a0He was now able to eat solid food and he had just gotten off the scale, weighing 194 even after his 12 day liquid diet. \u00a0He hypothesized that he was improving by about 2% per day.<\/p>\n
Paul Beatty, the fatty acids expert, had told me that after surgery he would heal faster and have very little pain after being on the Efamol Evening Primrose Oil and Cod Liver Oil protocol. \u00a0He was right. \u00a0So here was ‘Miracle Man’ doing great. \u00a0It was time to start adding some more treatments to his protocol so that we could leave for Hawai’i and\u00a0implement\u00a0our home regimen. \u00a0We had decided against any rectal probe treatments and Dr Cedeno had said not to use Ozone for a while as the stitches were organic and the Ozone could dissolve them. \u00a0I was still concerned about this, but somehow someone had said that he could now start the ozone treatment. \u00a0I was not there when Lennie had the treatment, but the nurse came up and said that he needed cleaning up. \u00a0This seemed like a good time to get him into another sitz bath as the surgeon had just checked his stitches about an hour earlier. \u00a0After the sitz bath I saw that the water was full of blood. \u00a0I called the doctor up to our room. \u00a0He was bleeding from a small hemorrhoid on the outside where a stitch seemed to be broken. \u00a0Oh no, I thought: \u00a0the Ozone. \u00a0The doctor wadded some gauze and poured Hydrogen Peroxide over it as he said that it was very useful at stopping small areas of bleeding. \u00a0“Would it be better if we also applied pressure?”, I asked. \u00a0“Yes it would.”, answered Dr Cantania. \u00a0“Would you be able to hold your hand there for 10 minutes?” \u00a0I kept my hand pressed tightly into Lennie’s anus for 15 minutes until the doctor came back into the room. \u00a0I held the broken stitch on the outside tightly together and when I let go that small break had stopped bleeding. \u00a0The gauze that the doctor had wadded inside was no longer oozing with blood. \u00a0Lennie was instructed to just lie there and not move around. \u00a0It wasn’t more than about 20 minutes when Lennie decided that he did not like his position and wanted to turn around in the bed. \u00a0He struggled to sit up and change his position and get comfortable. \u00a0It was about an hour later when I checked that I saw the pools of blood. \u00a0I called the doctor and he wadded more gauze against the blood-soaked cloth. \u00a0They started to give him Disynone to stop the bleeding. \u00a0It was late at night by now when we thought that the bleeding had slowed down. \u00a0I told the nurse that I would stay up and watch him. \u00a0At about 2 a.m. I went to sleep and thought that it was stopping.<\/p>\n
It took the doctor and nurse about an hour to pack Lennie’s rectum. \u00a0It was now 5 a.m. and the surgeon was walking into our room. \u00a0It had been a long and painful procedure with Lennie screaming out with the pain and begging the doctor to stop. \u00a0Dr Suzanne Guilliame was wonderful with him, telling him that she knew he hated her right now, but that he was strong physically and mentally and could stand it. \u00a0I am estimating that he lost about 2 pints of blood. \u00a0I began to get worried when the nurse started to save all the blood soaked bandages and protective pads.\u00a012 gauze bandages had been tied together like a rope. \u00a09 of them had been stuffed in to apply pressure and it was after the 9th that the bandage stopped turning red. \u00a0Mercifully it was over and the blood flow was stopping.<\/p>\n
It is now 6:30 p.m. in Mexico and we are waiting for the surgeon to come here to take a look and perhaps remove the pressure bandage. \u00a0If the bleeding starts up again he will have to go back in to surgery to have it stitched up. \u00a0Hopefully it is only a dissolved stitch and not the actual tumor bleeding.<\/p>\n
Today he has had 3 bags of plasma and 1 bag of his rare A negative blood, so he is feeling much better.<\/p>\n
To be continued…..<\/p>\n
Kathryn<\/em><\/p>\n www.kathrynsmith.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At 4 a.m. I awoke to the sounds of screaming. \u00a0There was a doctor and a nurse in our room packing yards of gauze into Lennie’s rectum, trying to stop the bleeding. \u00a0The screams were Lennie’s screams as he bit into his pillow, not being able to stand the pain….. Earlier in the day Lennie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamiltonartist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}