Wednesday, July 14, 2010

the tortoise and the hare

so we've all seen it... we all know how it ends... slow and steady win the race...

the last week of june dad couldn't keep anything down... not even water... it would come back up within 15 minutes... they did a scope on wednesday june 30th... his stomach was full of food that wasn't being pushed through... so they took it all out and thought that would do the trick... it didn't...

so on friday july 2nd they did an upper gi and things still weren't moving through... off to the er... they admitted him since he was so dehydrated... put him on medicine they thought would make his stomach work again... didn't work... stayed in the hospital still trying to figure it out... on thursday july 8th they did exploratory surgery because they still had no idea what was going on... they ended up opening the passage between his stomach and his intestines...

they seem to think that that was the problem... he still can't keep anything down, but he is feeling pretty good... they released him from the hospital today because as he says 'i can puke at home'...

dr tate says that it will just take time for his stomach to start really working... it's been through a lot in the past 3 months and we all think it's just giving him the finger and revolting...

s l o w & s t e a d y...





much love to stef for drawing the turtle...