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Today is the day!

On Friday morning the nurse woke me up at 06:00, to have a shower and shave my belly.

Dressing up in the blue theatre clothing. Now it starts to get very real.

Unfortunately, I am not allowed to have any coffee and I am very nervous.

To the theatre

I was driven in my bed to the preparation area. It’s a cold place down in the cellar. Have you ever felt the cold of an operation theatre?

Green dressed nurses and doctors rush around, I need to wait a few minutes… Sitting on the cold stainless-steel table the tension raises, I shiver. There is no way of turning back now.

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Hospital Seehausen

I checked into the Asclépios Hospital in Seehausen. Acute infection of the pancreas, painful and might be life-threatening. Blood was drawn, a biopsy done, infusions connected and much more. At first, they suspected much worse. I needed to stay for ten days.

12:00 PM – Wake up and a disappointing message (AGAIN!)

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Two weeks ago Vil went for a procedure which normally lasts around thirty minutes, but as always, it was a completely different story. The procedure lasted for five hours and after this, they needed to re-schedule, because they made so much ‘minced meat’ inside Vil that they needed to stop, so we waited for two weeks at our camping spot in Uitgeest for ‘Part-II’ and today was the day. We got up very early and I was brought to a friend of us, while Vil went to the hospital.
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Propofol – Vil & M.J. united.

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We got up very early and I was brought to a friend of us, while Vil went to the hospital. Vil checked in, got ‘prepared’, for the procedure and at 09:00 he was brought into the theatre and connected to all cables and tubes.

Then the ‘Sleepy Guy’ arrived and started to send him to the ‘Land of Dreams’.

Vil:
“Isn’t that Propofol, the stuff which killed Michel Jackson?”

Sleep Guy with a smile:
“Yes, but the guy who injected the stuff wasn’t as professional as me.”

Vil:
“That’s reassuring.”
Bang! Darkness…

Think positive & Life now: “Tomorrow, today will be yesterday!”

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Think positive & Life now:
“Tomorrow, today will be yesterday!”

More than 200 posts removed.
We cleaned up! It’s time for a new start, a new perspective and a new approach.

We deleted all posts on Facebook (forever), Twitter (not yet!) and we also archived more than 200 posts from the main blog. The posts are not completely deleted, but for the moment they are not available to the public. Allrite, we know that nothing once published can’t be deleted and that the internet remembers everything, but you get the point.

We removed these posts because we wouldn’t write them like this anymore, because they don’t reflect our actual state of mind and mood. These posts are still there and a part of our story, but we want to get rid of this sometimes quite negative, depressing, raw or even shocking content and we will re-re-write everything in a more positive way. We are sorry because sometimes emotions took over and we were quite angry and surely unfair and we deeply apologise for that.

Life is wonderful, TODAY!

We learned that life is too short to be wasted on anger, disappointments or just stupid things because life is beautiful and …

‘Tomorrow, today will be yesterday!’

There are so many people only living ‘tomorrow’ ….. when they buy a car, ….. when they go on holidays ….. when they will do something they could do today, but they just dream. They are alive, but they don’t have a real life, they live tomorrows dream.

Are you alive right now? Can you really appreciate ‘the moment’ or are you caught in your daily life with all the ‘I need to do this’ and ‘I can’t do that’?

We don’t complain anymore.

Ok, life is a bitch! We’ve hit rock bottom so many times, we lost everything we’ve ever worked for. Our car, job, house and family. Sometimes it was our own stupidity, some wrong decisions at the right time, sometimes just bad luck or a health issue and most of the times it was just a combination of all of them.

Now we are happy when the day is a good day. A good day is a day without pain or some other ‘complications’. A day who starts with hot coffee, a day with food, shelter and maybe some nice conversations.

Other than that, we don’t need much to be happy anymore.

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Tomorrow is “The Day”!

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If you ever considered a day as very important to you, tomorrow is one of these days for Vil. At around 8:30 he will go to sleep and a few minutes later they will remove the stone and put a stent into somewhere ;). Maybe removing the Evil wich caused him to suffer so much, we hope so. No complaints, but sometimes is was a little bit hard to get up again and again. For nearly twenty five years he was sick on and off. Visited hospitals in more countries some people ever in their life travel to.

He learned to appreciate life and understood that “Tomorrow, today will be yesterday!” So many people say that they will buy a car tomorrow or travel tomorrow or life tomorrow, but they tend to forget that there is also a NOW!

Life NOW. Love NOW!

CrossClaws for 2morrow!

E.R.C.P. – Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography

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The doctors informed that Vil has to wait a few days to recover a bit and then he will get an ECRP. On Thursday this week it’s ‘Operating Time’. They will put a tube in his throat, cut somewhere, remove the stone and place a stent.

“ERCP is a procedure that enables your physician to examine the pancreatic and bile ducts. A bendable, lighted tube (endoscope) about the thickness of your index finger is placed through your mouth and into your stomach and first part of the small intestine (duodenum). In the duodenum a small opening is identified (ampulla) and a small plastic tube (cannula) is passed through the endoscope and into this opening. Dye (contrast material) is injected and X-rays are taken to study the ducts of the pancreas and liver.”

Source – https://www.sages.org/publications/patient-information/patient-information-for-ercp-endoscopic-retrograde-cholangio-pancreatography-from-sages/

Sick & Happy – Time to celebrate!

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It’s celebration time. Vil is in the hospital for a few days now (again), he is not feeling good and still needs very strong medicine, like morphine for the pain, but he is very happy because it seems that the doctors finally figured out what’s wrong with him and why he gets sick every few months.

It seems like a dream that there is finally a reason why he feels so sick all the time and the doctors are able to help him now. More than twenty years of regular sickness, he was in hospitals in six countries dozens of times, he lost several jobs and his family because of this, but there is hope now.

The MRI showed the inflammation AND the stone again, so now they will go for an operation and place the Stent next week. I really hope that he can recover now because I need him, I miss him and I don’t want to be without him.

HappyBark

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Our Status
If you want to know where we are and what’s going on, please click here to see our latest status updates! If you want to read our whole adventure from the beginning and in chronological order please click here.

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Thank you very much.
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