As most of you know, Benton was admitted to Seattle Children's Hospital on Friday after a routine Endoscopy procedure. The procedure looked at his GI area for a cause of his recent weight loss and vomiting. btw - Benton is less than .9% of ideal weight for his age height.
Benton bored at the hospital...
The Endoscopy on Friday showed some very small cyst-like nodules in the stomach and duodenum. If you look closely at these two photos, you should see a pattern of small bumps that are not supposed to be there.
Immediately after the procedure, the doctor came out and said they were pretty sure the bumps were caused by H. Palori (bacterium that inhabits various areas of the stomach). However, the next day the pathology lab produced negative results for H. Palori.
We are on day three in the hospital and Benton is stable after getting nutrients and fluids through an IV and small amounts of formula through his G-Tube. The immediate plan is to slowly increase the dose of the formula until he's off the IV completely. This process won't be complete until early Tuesday AM at the earliest.
In the next day or so we'll hopefully have more discussions with our pediatrician and possibly more testing to find the root cause of his nausea and vomiting.
Here you can see the various fluids going into all the holes in Benton
I labeled each line...
On other fronts, here is a quick shot of the garage construction. A crew will return this week to complete the drywall and paint the interior of the garage. We may even get the new garage door installed. After that they'll have to reconstruct the storage units, install lights, and fix other problems they created along the way.
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I hope Mr. B is getting better and that you are getting some answers! Hugs to all of you!
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