So Simple Yet So Difficult

Endoscopy with biopsies and Jtube placement.  Must be the easiest "surgery" out there.  Especially for what Tony has been going through. 

"How long will it take Doc?" I asked

"No more than 45 min.  We'll see you in about an hour and a half."  He replied.

Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick...1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours....something's wrong.

Tick, tick, tick....buzzzzzzzzzz.  pager goes off  FINALLY 3 1/2 hours later the doctor is ready to see me.  His gallbladder didn't even take that long.

"Well everything went according to plan, I looked around we didn't see any cancer which is great...but we did find something."

They sure did...Tony's intestine was wrapped around his esophagus and had adhered to his abdominal wall!!!!!!!  Well I'll be I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG.  Yeah so they had to cut and pull and re-stitch and ugh I just...can we just have a normal day?

Tony woke up from surgery in a ridiculous amount of pain and unfortunately it never went away.  His feeding tube wasn't like the one before.  He said the tugging was horrible and it felt like someone was shocking his insides.

A month later we were in the ER having his tube removed why you ask???...intussusception in his small bowel.  Yeah while one doc said it was nothing to worry about, his oncologist said, that's what's causing your pain my friend.  Either way, though Tony had his energy back, the pain was just too much to bare.  He couldn't walk, sit, stand, lay, it was just horrible.

Needless to say the pain subsided when the tube came out, and then it was what seemed like back to square one.  So this time, I went to THE BOSS MAN...yep back to Dr. Pappas.