Had the EGD endoscope exam this morning
Aug. 8th, 2012 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakIt went much much MUCH better than the one back when I was 24. Excellent nurses, who totally understood my needle issues and helped me through the IV, and the full sedation is miles better than the twilight sleep I had last time. One minute I was thinking there was an awful taste in my mouth (the gas), then it disappeared and I started wondering when they were going to start.... Then then I was back in the little prep bay, wide awake and feeling no worse than I had before. I was wobbly on the way to the car afterward, and needed a little help from a nurse and then from Tom, but that passed quickly. :D
Since we did not have the luxury of a friend to watch the boys this time, Tom and the Zodling Squad waited with me til the nurse took me in back, then they went to Burger King for breakfast (check-in was at 6:30) and drove around town til the nurses called his cell.
They had the preliminary results ready as soon as Tom and the boys came in, and even pictures. My esophagus is fine. My stomach was visibly inflamed but had no ulcers. My duodenum is fine. They took biopsies for celiac and for H.pylori, and the results for that will be ready within seven to ten days. In the meantime, Dr. Baker increased my nexium to twice a day, since it's helping with some of the symptoms.
Still having abdominal pain. Still not out of the woods by any means. But I felt good enough by this evening to let Tom go to bed after he tucked Jack in (he argued, as I am still sick, but I pointed out we were skipping baths for the boys tonight, and sitting on couches watching tv is something I can actually do even these days; and he was drained enough to give in), and stay downstairs with Mark until it got too dark for him to play in the yard. Then I tucked him in, and now I'm on "watch tv and periodically chase Zodling back to bed til he actually falls asleep" detail.
Got to watch the bronze medal match for women's beach volleyball earlier AND the gold medal match tonight. :D :D :D Misty and Kerry won gold! EEEEEEEEE!!!
Catching up on webcomics. Might not finish as Mark hasn't ventured downstairs in a while and I am getting tired; if he's actually asleep then I'm heading to bed. I've been up since four am same as Tom, albeit not doing as much as he has the last three-four weeks, and I am very tired.
Since we did not have the luxury of a friend to watch the boys this time, Tom and the Zodling Squad waited with me til the nurse took me in back, then they went to Burger King for breakfast (check-in was at 6:30) and drove around town til the nurses called his cell.
They had the preliminary results ready as soon as Tom and the boys came in, and even pictures. My esophagus is fine. My stomach was visibly inflamed but had no ulcers. My duodenum is fine. They took biopsies for celiac and for H.pylori, and the results for that will be ready within seven to ten days. In the meantime, Dr. Baker increased my nexium to twice a day, since it's helping with some of the symptoms.
Still having abdominal pain. Still not out of the woods by any means. But I felt good enough by this evening to let Tom go to bed after he tucked Jack in (he argued, as I am still sick, but I pointed out we were skipping baths for the boys tonight, and sitting on couches watching tv is something I can actually do even these days; and he was drained enough to give in), and stay downstairs with Mark until it got too dark for him to play in the yard. Then I tucked him in, and now I'm on "watch tv and periodically chase Zodling back to bed til he actually falls asleep" detail.
Got to watch the bronze medal match for women's beach volleyball earlier AND the gold medal match tonight. :D :D :D Misty and Kerry won gold! EEEEEEEEE!!!
Catching up on webcomics. Might not finish as Mark hasn't ventured downstairs in a while and I am getting tired; if he's actually asleep then I'm heading to bed. I've been up since four am same as Tom, albeit not doing as much as he has the last three-four weeks, and I am very tired.
