Well, today I am happy to say that I am feeling quite a bit better that I have been the past couple days. Sunday night I did not feel very well after drinking a gallon plus some of this liquid prep that I had to drink prior to my procedure (to be honest the liquid reminded me of drinking soap and it was very hard to get down-I felt like I was drowning after drinking all of that). Then Monday morning I woke up and got ready to head to Sioux Falls for the procedures. I was starving at this point and very nervous about everything so I just felt nausea and sick to my stomach. I checked into the hospital at 9:30 a.m. and I went in for my procedures a little before 10:30. The staff was friendly (at least most of them were), very helpful, and they really kept things moving which I appreciated as I was ready for it to all be over. Charlie said the procedures lasted about 45 minutes and it sounded like I did well through the whole thing. I don't really remember much of anything AT ALL after they started the "Sleepy Medicine" in my IV, but apparently I asked one of the nurses her name like 5 times, I kept asking Charlie questions when I came out of the procedure and would fall asleep half way through our conversations and then wake up and ask the same question again, and I guess I also tried to text my family off and on after the procedure too but I would fall asleep half way through the text so I sent some pretty funny messages-sorry Jazz lol :)
Very tired...
Fell asleep in the middle of replying
to a text message from Jasmyn
Anyways, all in all the procedure went well. I was very tired following and my throat still hurts from the scope they put down, but other than that I can't complain. They found that my esophagus is inflamed from acid reflux and that my stomach is situated higher than it should be or high then most people's are anyways. They also took a biopsy of the stomach which we believe is to test for (we think celiac's disease). Like I said I was very tired and out of it. Charlie tells me that I was awake when the doctor said all of this and when the nurse gave me instructions on meds. etc, but I don't remember a thing, so I'm not exactly sure on all of the details. But, it sounds like we should have the results from the biopsy back in a week, so we should know more at that point and then be able to figure out what the best course of action will be.
Thank you all for your prayers & support. I'm look forward to hopefully getting to the bottom of this and feeling better soon. And a special thanks to my wonderful family & husband too for all of their help, love & support. I love you guys!
Resting at my sister Kansas & brother-in-law Danny's
house following the procedure.
Looks like Charlie was a little tired too as he worked a night shift the night before ;)
Jamie
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