Trent survived a difficult day on Tuesday. He had a camera look through all his intestines and upper digestive system today, but that was nothing compared to yesterday’ prep for the procedures. I didn’t mention that he did an upper GI test yesterday, as well! His Tuesday’s diet consisted of three glasses of barium, two glasses of phospho something or the other to clean him out, two dulcolax laxatives, and some sprite and Gatorade thrown in for grins. 34 hours of no food! He did it! He did it bravely…ok, when he threw up at 9pm, he lost it a little, but all in all, he did great!
Today’s test showed no abnormalities. This is good news because all out Crohn’s Disease should have had ulcers and thickening of the intestinal lining. The dr. took 8 biopsies at random just for investigative purposes…no cancer suspected or anything. He said that if nothing shows up, the only red flag remaining was the Crohn’s antibodies, so they may try treating it with a prescription anti inflammatory in case it is an early caught case. We will know more on Friday. Pray for answers. Nebulous is difficult at this point. He has ruled out gallbladder and said that no huge parasite grabbed his scope!
SO, we wait. Trent is having so much fun with his cousins. He has been playing some! That is so great to see. They are playing airsoft gun war, and he sits in the “tower” as a sniper because he is too tired to run around! BUT HE PLAYS< AND SMILES!!! 4 boy cousins are good medicine.
Our plan is to return May 29. That means 10 more days for Mr Mom Tom and also means that we miss the arrival of my first TEENAGER! Kendall turns 13 on Sunday! Pray for clarity and more clarity on this illness! Pray for stamina for Trent as he has now had 3 IV’s in a week! (and two blown veins!). Pray for Tom and the children in Budapest…and for patience for me.
Thank you so much. Valerie
P.S.
First, the time at Immigration went well on Tuesday. I was able to apply for the 4 of us that are still in Budapest and it appears that these will go through with no problem. We took a letter describing Valerie’s situation and they seemed to be sympathetic to our situation. We think that if Valerie & Trent can return before the end of May, then they should have no problem renewing their resident permits!!
In light of this, we scheduled their flights to arrive in Budapest on May 30th. It looks like they will need to return then whether we have found the problem with Trent or not due to the need to renew the residence permit.