continuation (day 30)

Aug 05, 2010

as a continuation to my last post...

i had the next endoscopy on wednesday morning, but before going in my surgeon says well i dont know if well be able to enlarge it because its a tight stricture but were going to try. if we cant then ill have to do surgery oh noooooooooo please not that!!! so we went in and they were able to dilate the hole most of the way. my surgeon later told me i have a big ulcer which ties into all the acid problems i had week one after eating my broth with hot sauce...ughhh. the ulcer is what pushed the hole closed because its sitting right next to the hole. if id said i was having chest pains for having the not-eating issues he wouldve know right away what was wrong but i went right from the acid reflux complaints to not being able to keep food down so he didnt think it was a stricture....just that i could tolerate foods.

anyway theyll need to go in again on friday and dilate the hole more plus make sure what they did wednesday is staying open. then i can go home and eat purees this weekend. if it closes some then i might have to have surgery still to remove the scar tissue. im praying thats not the case. my surgeon did say that until the ulcer is healed (4-6 weeks) the stricture might happen again. well hopefully it wont before or during my vacation in 3 weeks....ugh!!

i did do 3 miles yesterday and im attempting 3.25miles today...hopefully ill like what i see on the scale when i get back home and the IV fluids ware off. getting ready for florida baby!!

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