For fear of another negative blog post (my form of venting and giving all of you a glimpse into the window of my family and soul) I will explain how it is that you can break an esophagus!
It starts with A doctor who is full of himself and is erring on the side of conservancy, telling us to wait it out, "her one way valve (nissen) that allows her to swallow things down and not throw up is swollen and it will subside". The purpose of a nissen is to avoid aspiration. All during this swelling Allison would try to swallow her saliva and it would just sit on top of that nissen, stackup and then she would gag and cough it up. After 12 WEEKS of waiting when typically it takes 6 weeks, he decided it was too tight instead of swollen. So now all of that pooling has caused her esophagus to stretch out to hold all the saliva...thus broken. Her esophagus won't push things down through the nissen which is now open.
So, again...we wait for a test to decide what to do next. It seems so complicated, intertwined, connected, vicious circle, and oh so exhausting!
Allison is in good spirits...we have walked in the sunshine, read books and have had frequent pop ins from hospital friends. She is however, missing watch Sesame Street with her Sissy, Sissy snuggles, sleeping in her own bed, and the food at home is better. I miss all of those too. Oh and my husband...he is never to be forgotten. He is the wind in my sails.
Amy
Oh did I say I think it is all the Doctor's fault
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I was just reading this and Chase came up and looked at the page and yelled "Hey! That's my friend! And she has a buterfly on her face." Then he giggled.
We talked about why she is on our computer and then he said a prayer for her. Thought you should know. We LOVE YOU all!
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