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Pancreatitis & Hayley’s Journey

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Jenny in Hayley's Journey, Stories No Comments

Over six years ago, when she was only 7 years old, Hayley had a sudden attack of severe upper abdominal pain accompanied by vomiting bile and swelling in the abdomen. I took her to the ER at Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) in Cambridge, Ontario. The ER doctor did an X-ray, ultrasound, and various blood tests. […]

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This is a radio interview done with CBC Radio Edmonton from the Alberta Stollery Children's Hospital May 31st, 2013. The interview was done one month after her 13 hour (TP/IAT) Total Pancreactomy & Auto Islet Transplant. By this time Hayley should have had a lot less pain than she was experiencing but we were remaining optimistic. Hayley had opportunity to do both radio and TV interviews to talk about being the 2nd child in Canada to undergo this type of rare surgery and also bring raise awareness to the wrath of Chronic Pancreatitis and the TP/IAT procedure. Hayley chose not to do any further interviews to support the surgery because she already knew in her heart that the surgery was NOT doing what it was supposed to. The surgery was done with almost no pre-testing. Looking back I am now wondering what did the doctor base his positive comment on? His words were that he was 99.9% sure that the surgery was going to help Hayley's pain considerably and maybe even stop it altogether! Never did he say it could make it worse...

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