Adam and the Hospital

Most of you already know what has been going on in our lives lately, but I will inform the rest of you now that I have a second to myself.
Last week Adam was feeling yucky and then finally on Wednesday he went to the Dr. They thought it was either Gastritis or the Flu minus the fever. Thursday he woke up and had major pain in his abdomon so he didn't go to work. Friday was the same thing but worse pain. By the time 4:00 hit on Friday he had tried so many different things to see if he could get the pain to go away and we had exhausted our options for what "normal" sickness could have him so dibilitated so we went to the ER. As soon as they saw how much pain he was in they gave him morphine which BARELY took the edge off. They gave him something called Diladed and took him for a Cat scan.
Right away they came back with the diagnosis that he had Pancreatitis which they said is something usually caused by excessive drinking (obviously not the case) or Gallstones. Long story short he does NOT have gallstones, a blockage or any other reason why his pancreas got so mad at him. The GI doc said that 75% of all cases the cause is never known. So he must fit into that category. He was admitted and told that Pancreatitis is extremely painful and the only way to fix the problem is to let the pancreas rest by not eating anything. He was put on a strict water diet for 2 days then they let him have some other clears which he is still on now.
The hardest part about this whole thing is the pain of it all. He seriously would go from extreme pain to extreme drowsiness (from the pain stuff) to extreme nausea. For 5 days it was like this. The Diladed finally wasn't even working on him so we decided to switch to pills by mouth rather than the IV drugs in order to switch it up and get him better. (Apparently the more you take narcautics the more you stop your insides from working properly and the harder it is for the pancreas and its swelling to go down.) The nights that followed I stayed with him at the hospital and it was HORRIBLE. He was literally in so much pain it was all he could do not to scream. They would give him his pain meds he would sleep for an hour and then we would walk the halls for half hour or so to get his mind off it and get his stomach working again. It was traumatizing. He could not find a comfortable spot and everything ached. It was so hard to watch him go through it and know that there was NOTHING I could do about it.
To make a Long story a little shorter I will let you know that I started giving him herbs and he started to feel better. They released him yesterday afternoon and he is doing better here even though he is still in a lot of pain. We still have a good stretch of road ahead of us but we must say we feel stronger and closer to our Heavenly Father and Savior now more than ever. That journey is for another post, but it will be coming.
I love all of you who stepped up and helped with the kids and our house and made the effort to be there for us. Even for those of you who fasted and prayed because you couldn't be here to physically do something. It would have been a complete nightmare had we not had all of your support. Instead it was a very trying time with a lot of comfort and love.
Thank you... please continue to pray for Adam to heal.
Love Ashley