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A real life horror story...
I'm back...
Late last summer I didn't feel well, took myself to the docs... and later that day found myself in hospital. I had a gall stone, a big, nasty one.
But that's not the subject of this horror story...
While treating me for the stone, they also discovered I had liver cancer... a tumor, a huge tumor, on over half of my liver. I had an op to try to remove the gall stone. That failed. Another op a few days later also failed so they decided the stone would have to stay where it was and I needed a bile duct bypass. I also needed something done about the liver...
Three weeks after being admitted I was sent home with a bile-drain in to wait for a date for the big surgery...
Finally got that arranged and on 16th November went in for surgery.
I was on the table for over ten hours (the surgeon was knackered by the end of it). They cut me open from between my nipples down to above my right hip and got to work. They cut out fifty percent of my liver and bypassed my bile duct. When I came to I had a lot of pain and an enormous scar, but was told I was on the mend. After a week recovering I was sent home.
Ten days later I felt ill again. Back to the docs, and got rushed to ER...the surgical wound had got infected. They drained 3 pints of noxious puss out of my body, pumped me full of antibiotics, left a drain in to keep the puss from building up... and again I started recovering.
Another week later I got home, in time for a quiet Xmas.
It's been slow going since then but I'm now a lot better. Had a chat with the surgeon last week, the puss-drain finally came out, and a CAT Scan showed they I'm all clear... they got all the tumor and my liver is healing nicely.
All of which is a long winded way of saying I haven't been doing any writing for the past six months, but this week I got back in the chair.
The only way is up...
Late last summer I didn't feel well, took myself to the docs... and later that day found myself in hospital. I had a gall stone, a big, nasty one.
But that's not the subject of this horror story...
While treating me for the stone, they also discovered I had liver cancer... a tumor, a huge tumor, on over half of my liver. I had an op to try to remove the gall stone. That failed. Another op a few days later also failed so they decided the stone would have to stay where it was and I needed a bile duct bypass. I also needed something done about the liver...
Three weeks after being admitted I was sent home with a bile-drain in to wait for a date for the big surgery...
Finally got that arranged and on 16th November went in for surgery.
I was on the table for over ten hours (the surgeon was knackered by the end of it). They cut me open from between my nipples down to above my right hip and got to work. They cut out fifty percent of my liver and bypassed my bile duct. When I came to I had a lot of pain and an enormous scar, but was told I was on the mend. After a week recovering I was sent home.
Ten days later I felt ill again. Back to the docs, and got rushed to ER...the surgical wound had got infected. They drained 3 pints of noxious puss out of my body, pumped me full of antibiotics, left a drain in to keep the puss from building up... and again I started recovering.
Another week later I got home, in time for a quiet Xmas.
It's been slow going since then but I'm now a lot better. Had a chat with the surgeon last week, the puss-drain finally came out, and a CAT Scan showed they I'm all clear... they got all the tumor and my liver is healing nicely.
All of which is a long winded way of saying I haven't been doing any writing for the past six months, but this week I got back in the chair.
The only way is up...
The Hole - a readng
See me read an excerpt from my novel THE HOLE on Instagram, then head over to the giveaway at williammeikle DOT com and enter for a chance to win a signed limited edition hardcover of the book.
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Web site overhaul
Just completed an overhaul of the site... a lot of back end stuff. There's new graphics for all my book / headers adverts to complement new covers for all the chapbook collection, and a general tidying up of things throughout.
The site is coming up for 30 years old soon and has seen nearly as many changes as I have myself over the time :-)
https://www.williammeikle.com
William Meikle
The site is coming up for 30 years old soon and has seen nearly as many changes as I have myself over the time :-)
https://www.williammeikle.com
William Meikle
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