Every night in the hospital I will get a bag called a TPN bag. This is breakfast lunch and dinner for me. So what I am doing is writing the name of what I would like for dinner on the bag each night. It looks like a gallon of milk in a gallon zip lock bag.
Late last night Dr. Kim finally showed up to meet with us. I was so happy see him, and finally get to talk to my doctor about the problems. He meets with Jaime BGDP and me. He meet with us for 30 to 45 minutes. Talked about several options and future hurdles. The biggest thing that he said is that I am the first person in gastric sleeve history to spring a leak at 4 weeks post opp. Nobody has ever seen this before. So he said that we are going to proceed with caution. The biggest example that he gave was getting stitches in your hand, and 4 weeks later your bare skin busts open. So I am a mystery wrapped inside of an enigma.
This morning we had 2 big tests run, we had a CT scan done again, and an upper GI. They are having a hard time pin pointing the leak. They say that I have air bubbles forming on the outside of the sleeve but the leak can't be detected.
So what is next, well tmrw morning we are going to do an endoscope to determine if we have a hole or not? If we can't find a hole no stint will be put in. This is what we hope for. If no leak is found we will start to track the flow of my stomach with liquids. We will know more if those liquids start to show up in my JP drain. If nothing shows up we pull the drain and go home. Best case scenario right now.
If the hole is found we will place a stint in my stomach to stop the leak. Upon that we will track the stint for movement and move forward with a J Tube (feeding tube) for 6 weeks. If all of that goes exactly how I explained we will be out of the hospital on July 13th one week from today.
That is all we know at this point. I want to thank everyone for you support. It has been over whelming with the well wishes prayers, and offers for help. It truly helps a lot when you feel like you are at rock bottom to get such an over powering support from your friends and family.
But at the end of the day I am a fighter. I don't take crap from anyone, and I don't quit. So a little hole in my stomach is not going to stop me from reaching my goals. So Casey look out you will be the heaviest Jordan boy at my wedding.
I will have a new post tmrw to keep you updated.
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