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Another Bloody August. Mysteries and Muddles. And Hospitalists.
Silly me. I look back on my post from earlier this month, An Uneventful Day, Unlike Last August 2, and wonder. There I wrote about how on August 2, 2010, I had an arterial lesion burst where the...
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PBC, Portal Hypertension, and a Bloody Inconvenient Route
My last post before my world changed on August 28 was “Another Bloody August. Mysteries and Muddles. And Hospitalists” about my second sudden gastric bleed in two years and my second misdiagnosis by...
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Third Time Around: PBC, Portal Hypertension, and a Routine Bleed
This one’s for that small audience of folks with primary biliary cirrhosis or other conditions that lead to portal hypertension, which can lead to burst varices usually in the esophagus or stomach,...
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Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Portal Hypertension, and the Frustration of...
I haven’t had a post recently on primary biliary cirrhosis. One feature of this blog is the occasional post on what it is like to have this autoimmune condition. In the past two years, I had three...
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Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Portal Hypertension, My Perfect Endoscopy Results...
This post updates my last one, Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Portal Hypertension, and the Frustration of Knowing There’s No Way of Knowing What I Need to Know, in which I discussed what a relief it was...
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PBC, Bleeding Varices. Bleeds 5 and 5.5. Or 6.
Yes, it has been months since I last posted, and, yes, my next-to-last post was on this same topic (Primary Biliary Cirrhosis [PBC], Portal Hypertension, My Perfect Endoscopy Results and My Fourth...
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PBC Bleed 7. The Vesuvius Within Me. Crashing in the Same Car.
Good thing I finally got around this month to describing November’s bleeds 5 and 6 in this continuing realtime account of me and my PBC (primary biliary cirrhosis) because now it’s already time to move...
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My PBC: Collateral Damage
I’ve described the gory consequence of my primary biliary cirrhosis: gastrointestinal bleeds. There’s also collateral damage, for want of a better term, that isn’t so dramatic and isn’t...
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Cameron’s Erosion Erupts (Again): Bleed the Eighth
Back when I first decided to write about having primary biliary cirrhosis in November 2009, I never figured that this would become my bloody blog. I have neglected the blog for months because if I am...
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Always Bleeding from the Same Scar: Bleeds 9 and 10
There’s a new series of posts I am planning, but first I need to catch up on my bloody misfortunes. It’s been a year since my last post on a bleed, caused by portal hypertension, in turn itself caused...
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Bleed 11, An Exploratory Endoscopy, Bleed 12, Injectafer Again
My trials with gastrointestinal bleeds continue. Simply go straight up and click Primary Biliary Cirrhosis or Portal Hypertension Bleeds if you are a late arrival to this wearisome party. At this point...
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My 13th — and Perhaps Final — Portal Hypertension Bleed
At the end of my previous post, My Mother’s Last Three Days, I announced that I had had my thirteenth portal hypertension bleed at my mother’s death bed.* It had happened. A bleed. A big one. I was...
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In Which a Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) Is Installed...
This is a good time to remind everyone that my posts are not intended to provide medical advice. I do not have any medical training. My purpose is solely to provide a firsthand account of what I’ve...
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Protein, Ammonia, Cirrhosis, and Hepatic Encephalopathy: What I Learned
My last post, “Hepatic Encephalopathy: On Knowing I Didn’t Know What I Knew I Know,” ended with me trying to cope with an episode of confusion, temporary loss of lifelong memories and inability to form...
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How PBC Became PBC
I haven’t updated since October of last year. I get comments now and then, asking how things are going. To catch you up if you are new here, I have been writing about my battles with Primary Biliary...
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This Thing Called End-Stage Liver Disease
This is another post about primary biliary cholangitis (cirrhosis) [PBC]. In my last post, I used the term End-Stage Liver Disease [ESLD]. It’s a very vague and barely useful designation. The good...
View ArticleHow Am I? An Update on Dragging Along with Primary Biliary Cholangitis...
Roughly a year ago, I said, I’m done. No more pricks or scans. Longtime readers will know that my life from 2010 to 2015 had become a gruesome slough of gastric/esophageal varices bleeds, an uncommon...
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