Postby Hey Daddy » Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:48 pm
Thanks Karen,
He has been in this state for 12 days now so I guess we've blown by the 4 day window. When this started he was in Michigan working at a Young Life camp. They took him to a small local hospital as it was the closest facility. The verdict was appendicitis and they did the lap procedure and let him go that day. By that night, my wife had flown up (we live in Georgia) and when, in the wee hours of the morning, he started vomiting she took him back in. He was at the Michigan hospital for 7 days. They tried the gastrograffin but he threw it up. Finally after being pumped full of liquids and laxatives he held down some soft food and had some diarrhea so they discharged him. We flew back home the next day but by that night he was throwing up bright green bile and we ended up at the hospital here where, at least, he is being seen by a doctor whom we know and trust and who knows his history (he's the surgeon that performed his resection last year). I read accounts of these things taking a couple of weeks so we are trying to be patient. My biggest fear, whether rational or not, is that the ileus was the original problem, appendicitis was mis-diagnosed, and that cancer recurrence in the small intestine which has somehow gone undetected on multiple CT scans is at the root of it all. Yeah, I guess you could say I'm a worry wart. I just wish the boy would start shitting again.
BTW, in a few weeks he is supposed to go to Nashville for the 2018 Colondar shoot so he needs to get out of this damn hospital and get his strength back!
DS dx CC Stage IIB (T4N0M0) 3Aug16, 21 yr old
poorly differentiated, lymphovascular and perineural invasion
CEA 29
Colon resection 4Aug16
CEA 2.5
Genetics testing negative
6 mo FOLFOX Sep16 - Mar17
CT Scan Mar17 clear
Colonoscopy Apr17 clear
CEA 1.8
NED
Emergency appendectomy Jun17
Adhesion surgery to clear small bowel obstruction Dec 17