re: Acute Pancreatitis

Woke up Memorial Day 2017 with an awful stomach ache. Laid around all day complaining, wife made me go to urgent care. Urgent care told me I needed to fart and to home and take Gas X. Went to work the next day and left after lunch to go home.

Drove to the ER that night expecting to be told the same thing, was immediately admitted.

Doctors and Nurses would not take my word that I wasn’t an alcoholic, I’m really not a big drinker at all. They kept giving me a pill, and when I asked what it was for, they told me it was so I didn’t get the shakes from alcohol withdrawals. At that point I had to sign a paper for refusing medicine.

It probably didn’t help that I kept asking when I was getting out because I had to get to Atlantic City - my buddies bachelor party was that weekend.

Went in the hospital on a Tuesday, treatment was “don’t eat or drink for two days”. Discharged on Thursday and went down to AC Friday - I just had to swear to the Doc I wouldn’t drink that weekend.