I had a open distal pancreatectomy with splenectomy on March 10. First day after surgery was pretty brutal . They were pumping me with tramadol gabapentin, fentanyl, Thea and epidural, but the pain was still there, and I was so sick to my stomach that I couldn’t barely get up without feeling that I was gonna fall flat on my face. They two anesthesiologist came by and I told them to replace my Fentanyl with some thing else because it was making me to sick to be able to get up. They remove the fentanyl and replace it with numbing medication. My my surgeon asked me if I wanted to try Toradol for the pain because I was so sensitive to all narcotics. At the moment I asked her to remove the gabapentin and tramadol since it wasn’t working. Just with the numbing medication and the toradol was enough to control my pain. Foley was removed on the second day, and I was advanced to ice chips, which I wasn’t very happy because I was so thirsty I would have thought I would have I have been through the desert for 10 days without having a sip of water Day three of us moving better less pain. On day three I started having some chills and I told the nurse to take my temperature when she did invite a low-grade fever of 99.9 they immediately got an order for an x-ray of my chest and it showed that I had a pneumonia that had developed overnight, they immediately got orders to put me on three different antibiotics while they try to figure out what ham type of pneumonia or if I had other infection in the body that they did not know about.my white blood cell count was really high and my red blood cell count was really low . This routine continue for the next four days. I had blood from every day and x-ray done every day to check. The pneumonia was improving and my blood counts were improving. On the six my surgeon decided to get a consult from a pulmonologist to see if it was OK to get aspiration of the fluid in my lungs to see if it was infected. When it was finally scheduled, and then ultrasound was done to see how much liquid they noticed that it was beginning to be reabsorbed in my body and it was not worth it take any risk of inserting a needle into my lung space and puncturing a lung , and they said that it was better to just watch it and let it resolve on Its own. And on the morning before I was his charge, an x-ray was performed with my chest and it showed that the fluid in my lung was almost reabsorbed into my body. Results of the masses removed were like clean clean margins around him low grade one tumor contained within its base. No further treatment will be needed.

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