Eric had an endoscopy today. He got escorted down:
He got all ready, took a selfie:
and away he went:
He was gone a long time and the wait was a long one. He came back sleepy:
The doctor came out and explained how the procedure went. They were able to dialate his esophagus and get the scope down enough to check everything out. They found a little inflammation and took eight biopsies to check for GVHD. The results from that will come back in a day or two. Overall things went as best as we could've hoped for. An EGD wasn't possible this time because the opening wasn't big enough. But he doctor said maybe in the future.
Eric continued to recover well. Then he started to throw up blood! It took me by a big surprise and was really, really scary!! The nurses all came in and we got a throw up bag and sat his head up. Soon he stopped throwing up blood and we were able to clean him up.
The nurses went and talked to the doctor about what was the next step. They drew some labs to check his hematocrit level, started some platelets, gave him some anti nausea medication and watched him down in endoscopy until the hematocrit levels came back.
Good news is he hasn't thrown up anymore blood. The hematocrit levels came back higher than this morning (but he had also revieved a bag of red blood this morning). From my understanding if there was active bleeding his hematocrit would've dropped significantly. They will be checking his hematocrit levels every six hours, through the night, to be safe.
Pray for Eric. He's one tough guy. This is another bump along the road but I think he will heal. Keep up the fight!!
Jamie
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