Brent says that the one word you never want to hear your surgeon say while you are lying on his table is "whoops." Yeah. We had a fun day yesterday. He had a fistulagram in the morning, which showed that the fistula is still communicating with the intestine, but it is smaller, and there is no longer a pocket of abscess. Yay! We area hoping that the Cimzia is working, and that it will close up on its own.

We then met Brenda for lunch since we had a couple of hours to waste waiting for the appt. with Dr. Price. He was encouraged by the films and the report of the fistulagram. He decided to start inching the drain out slowly over the next month to see if the fistula would close up behind it. That's when the OOPS happened. The drain came all the way out. He just kind of held it in his hand and said. "huh."

So, now we just wait and see what happens. If the fistula creates another abscess then he will have to have a drain put back in. He wasn't too heartbroken to get rid of the drain, as it was starting to really get irritated. So, now it's just a waiting game. . . again.

Brent has been able to go into the office almost every day for the past couple of weeks. Not back to full-time, but hey, it's a start.

Thank you to everyone for your prayers for Tina. She is doing really well. Her heart procedure/surgery went really well, and she has a 90% chance that it will not happen again. She is still very tired and sore. That should pass in a week or two. She is back to school, but just going to the classes she knows she can't miss. Bad timing, as it is the end of the term. Oh well.

Thanks again . . . for everything.
Lisa

My, how time flies.

I hadn't realized how long it has been since posting. I know you've missed us terribly. :)

Brent has been doing pretty good for a few weeks, and we don't want to jinx that. He is actually at work today, as in, physically in his office! That is awesome. I texted him and said I didn't quite know what to do without him here. Weird. So, we met for lunch. :)

Since stopping the Vancamycin, benadryl, and Rocefin, he has been feeling much better. He isn't in a constant fog anymore. He was so over-medicated that he couldn't even function. Crazy.

Yes, he still has the drain, although it's not draining much. He will have another CT scan, or Fistulagram probably next week sometime to see how the fistula is doing. We are hoping and praying for another miracle and that it is actually healing up on its own. Here's hoping for good things.

If you feel so inclined, please pray for Kristina. For those of you who are LDS, as we approach Fast Sunday this Sunday, please include her in your fast. She will probably kill me if she finds out I put her on "the blog" but oh well. The more prayers and good thoughts the better. Kristina will be undergoing a heart procedure on the 12th of March. She has been diagnosed with SVT (supraventricular tachycardia). Feel free to Google it if you want more info. Basically, one of the nodes in her heart has two paths in it instead of one, and they have to go in and cauterize one of the pathways so that the sensors can only go in one of the pathways, and allow her heart to function normally. Right now, the sensors just kind of go in circles. Dennis says she has a circus in her heart. He thought that kind of fit. :) She has been randomly blacking out since December, and is just so tired all the time. Now we know why, and hopefully this procedure (ablation) will fix the problem.

Some of you are now thinking, Geez, does it ever end? Yeah, we kind of think that too. Brent made an interesting observation the other day, after finding out about all of this. He said, you know how there is always that one family that is just so needy, and has so many problems and are just a pain in the butt? Well, we've become that family in the neighborhood. Sad, but true. We try not to be needy, only asking for prayers, but we sure are pains in the butt sometimes. :) Thanks for hanging in there with us . . . again.
Lisa