Busted!
So the procedure went well. I’m home and feeling fine. For those of you who are curious, I had an ERCP to take a look at my biliary tree. There were no stones, but the little sphincter between the duodendum and the common bile duct was really inflamed, so they cut it open and took some tissue for analysis.
Okay, so all that being said, I took my Yoga mat to the hospital. Totally stashed it at the bottom of my bag. Before the procedure yesterday, I got in a bit of a practice, maybe, oh 30 minutes. It isn’t easy with an IV in your arm, but I managed some standing asana and also some yin asanas on the floor.
Then, this morning, they unhoooked me so I could get cleaned up and when they left, they asked me to push the call button when I was ready to be re-attached to the IV. Well, what a great opportunity to have a nice practice, eh? (Read: I was beside myself with excitement to be disconnected from the IV!!)
I was about 30 minutes into my practice and was actually in a headstand when the nurse came back to find out if I’d fallen in the toilet.
Ahem.
So, the poor nurse gave me a talking to (although I didn’t understand most of what she said) and put me back to bed with my IV. Once back in bed, I settled in to some meditation time, so it all ended well….
Thank you all for your good thoughts! I felt all the healthy energy you sent my way and obviously, it worked!
January 10th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Too bad you don’t have a pic of yourself doing a handstand in your hospital room — that would be classic!
January 10th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
That’s awesome!
January 10th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I’m glad it went well. I bet this story made the rounds at the nurses’ station!
January 10th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Oh, that’s priceless! Am going to forward this to my mom and two of her colleagues — all do yoga, and all are nursing instructors. They’ll love it!
January 10th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Oh I’m so glad to hear everything turned out ok yesterday! Are you waiting on any type of results?
The headstand story is hilarious!! True dedication to the practice of yoga!! I’m impressed!
Take it easy!!
January 10th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Glad you’re doing well
January 10th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I expect nothing less! Glad you are home.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
If these last two days don’t qualify you for your choice of a woyopracmo prize, girl, I don’t know what does! You do us all proud.
Seriously, glad to hear there are no stones. When do you get the biopsy results back? So, the attacks of pain make sense since they probably were due to the inflation/infection. Now, what are they going to do about it?
(Sorry, don’t know if these questions are too personal. Being Canadian married to an Italian/German, I’ve been socially reprogrammed. People in my home love to talk about sex, politics, religion, sickness, scatological matters, and scandals, as if they’re mentioning their shoe size to a shoes salesperson.)
January 10th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Excellent. It would have been really cool if you could have used the I.V. tubing as props. Like a rope wall, or something.
Did they put you on meds for the inflammation?
January 11th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Glad you are on the mend!
January 11th, 2008 at 4:26 am
Talk about comitment! xx
January 11th, 2008 at 4:36 am
Lilalia~ They cut open the little muscle that is inflamed and put me on a course of antibiotics, which they believe will do the trick. I will get the biopsy results back next week, but they think it’s most likely because of passing microstones that they can’t visualize (under 5mm and they can’t see them).
Honestly, it didn’t feel like commitment to practice, it felt like sanity. It kept me from feeling like I was a “patient”. You know?
Thank you all for all the good wishes.
January 12th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Nona, you are so funny!!! I love the headstand story. I agree with Lilalia — you deserve the woyopracmo prize hands down! I am knitting a market bag in Tuscany rust color…think it just might have your name on it!
January 13th, 2008 at 2:06 am
That’s hilarious! Glad the op went well and you’re back home now
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