Back From Minnesota

What a blessing our Minnesota church family is to us. It was a rough week for Cary and still is. Tuesday they ran a hiatus scan, to check and see if his bile duct was backflowing bile into the stomach. This would explain all the nausea and vomiting. The exam confirmed some backflow. He had a gastroenema? sp. They were looking for megacolon, to have documentation for insurance purposes for the recommended intestine surgery. This test also confirmed what the doctors saw when they did the transplant surgery. So, the Dr. recommends doing the surgery int he future to repair both problems. The primary issue is getting some nutrition. While we were there for his follow up to the transplant, they scheduled to place a feeding tube. There were some complications with this, as Cary is vomiting up huge amounts of liquids. It seems his stomach is unable to empty and has to vomit. The strange part is none of the drains out of the G-tube (stomach tube). He has started his nutrition through the J=tube (intestine tube). He has to work up the volume so his intestine adjust accordingly. We left Minnesota today, knowing we would probably be putting him in the hospital when we got home. The family Dr is expecting to see him in the morning, unless he gets dehydrated and we end up in ER tonight. We're hoping it will resolve itself. Thank you for your prayers. We were so blessed the weather was wonderful, bright and sunny the whole way home and roads were great too.

We thank GOD for taking care us and hope to see some improvements in Cary...
God Bless,
Amanda

After digging around 4 different times they gave up and decided to use ultrasound. I tried to use suttle hints like "must be a roller huh" "Cary you ok? He's been digging in you for a while now" Cary is a much more patient patient than I. They've dug seventeen times before, but not today. They are putting in the feeding tube. The dr expects to send him home. I will posts later on the findings from his exams yesterday. I told Cary he glows in the dark from all the nuclear stuff he had yesterday....God is good, very good to us.