Monday, July 28, 2008

G-Tube Issues & another Hospital stay

Today I met my mom over at Dr Field's office at 10:30. He tried to insert my dad's G-Tube in the office and said he wanted to get an X-ray to ensure the tube was in the right place. Well we walked over to The Woodlands X-ray and got an X-ray and hustled back to Dr Field's office. Once there he came out and said it was in-conclusive. So we had to hustle back over to the hospital for another X-ray and a CT Scan. Dr. Field came out and said the tube did not make it to the stomach so they are admitting him to try laporoscopy surgery and if that does not work they will have to open him up. Either way they have to put him under so we run the risk of him not waking up since his body is so frail. We also were warned that infection may set in since his stomach has been leaking, and the possibility of internal damage from the leakage as well. He just went back to srugery and we hope for good news. He will be here at least 2 days, I'm just glad we're in the Woodlands.

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