The follow up GI appointment

Its been a while since I posted progress about Phil. Let me start off by saying, this summer (according to Phil) he has been doing pretty well. And I agree, to an extent. Last week was horrible. It started out with all of us catching a stomach bug. For Phil that meant his pancreas decided to do its thing and not work. Thursday, Friday and Saturday Phil ran a temperature of 105 degrees. He had fevers, chills, hot and cold, aches, pains, the left quadrant of his belly was swollen, he threw up a bunch and not to mention when he ran the fever of 105, he was delirious and doesn't remember a whole lot from those three days. Back to the appointment. Still not sure if its Chronic pancreatitis. Phil now has a standing order to get blood work done when an attack occurs. Next up, blood work. Phil's GI is going to run more tests, even for weird things like a male only hep. He's going to have an MRCP and an ERCP. As for the diet stick to low fat, and when the attacks occur he is on a liquid only diet, home made protein shakes, Ensure and Boost. Phil is happy he can have meat. The only catch, it has to be sliced deli meat. :/ Most of you who read this will probably think I'm the most horrible wife, but we asked the question about cancer. Often there are no signs or symptoms. And most of the people who get pancreatic cancer are men in their 60's or 70's. The doctor was very understanding. He understood Phil's reasoning for not going to ER last week during the presumed attack. Understood to a T. So more testing is in order, go to ER if another attack occurs, and it will be after January before he can get for a follow up with the GI (he's a very good doctor but very hard to get into). Thats all the news we have.