Lifted High

Another day in the hospital! I was told that I couldn't eat or drink anything after 12 am last night for a liquid gastric emptying "sometime" today. LOL. That sounds promising right? So I was wheeled down there and swallowed nuclear apple juice and got scanned after 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, and 1 hour and a half. Whew. Definitely not invasive but sort of time consuming. I saw the dr. today and he's still singing the same tune. Not really wanting to place another g-j tube. Grrrr. We'll see what the test says. Oh yeah, after I'm down there the tech tells me the longest I should have to go without eating or drinking is 4 hours. Hahaha. Good stuff. I went about 12. Tomorrow morning I'll do the solid gastric emptying which is done with nuclear eggs. Exciting indeed! Ron's good friend Tommy is doing an event for me at the LongBranch on September 5th. I'm definitely going just to mainly be there because it's being done for me. I'll probably speak on stage after all the excitement. Should be a fun time. Weird with no drinking but it's not good for me anyway. Yesterday was kind of a down day. I ate a marvelous breakfast (eggs, potatoes, cheese biscuits, AND tomato gravy) only to throw it up later in the day. I felt defeated and trapped in this room. I wouldn't take calls or text people back. I'm lots better today though. Smiles and all! Just had a wonderful conversation with the social worker. He's pretty chill. My doc informed me today that I'll get one more day of IV's then I'm off until the next flair up!! Hopefully it will be longer this time. Now if we could just figure out the tube issue, we'd be golden. Mostly, I just want to be home. My feeding tube is no longer giving me pain and I'm willing to go through another placement. I think my dad is trying to visit tonight :) I'll keep updating as news is available. Also, I'm posting a picture of my super heroes that are fundraising for me. Love you all.


My team of Super Heroes!!!