My intestine story - Blood in mucus. Day 16.

Here follows a journal of the past two weeks and the difficulties I went through. I will write each day as a new post for easy reading. To sum it up: I had to get an emergency operation because my intestines couldn't digest food. Here is what happened...

Tuesday,  3 June

At first I though that today there would not be too much to report on. But this morning when I had a usual coughing fit, I saw that I had some blood in my mucus. 

>CFs, have you experienced this as well?<

This has happened to me in the past. I have told that reasons may be:

• 5% Saline may be too strong
• If you have sinusitis, it could cause some blood in the sputum. Don't know why.
• Heavy coughing may lead to a little, mini vein popping, which is okay and not too bad.
• There might an infection of some kind.

My doc didn't look too worried and just said that we will send a sputum to make sure that there are not some new bugs in my lungs.

Overall my mucus varies from being thick and green, to a lot but thin and yellow, to almost nothing. It varies randomly and there is no pattern. At one point I think I am okay, and the next moment out comes this green gunk.

Furtermore, I will say that I have taken another step forward and now I am ordering even more food.

The doctor said that I might go home on Thursday and Friday.