I got to come home on Thursday and thought I was doing pretty good. I have to take pain meds every 5-6 hours and I am having really bad spikes in my pain level that I think is gas and stool goinh through the end of my digestion system . Thosr pains get closer and closer together until I canter take it and I go to the bathroom. Today has been worse for some reason. Drew brought home food from church and the smell of it made me feel sick. The pain has been worse and the meds don't seem to help as much either. Drew called the oncall surgeon and he said he couldn't do much because I wasn't throwing up or running a high temp. He did suggest that I could go into the local ER and have them check my white cell count and do a ct it it was high. We went in and they did the test and gave me some iv pain meds. My white cell count is slightly elevated but not enough to be worried or do a ct scan. However, now we have a base reading if it gets worse.

Today I have had a lot more pain but nothing like the past. I just got apple juice for breakfast but got some pudding for lunch. The doc came in this afternoon and said I could advance my diet tonight for dinner. They are also going to pull my IV and switch me to oral pain meds. The biggest news is I may get out as early as tomorrow!!

Melissa had surgery this morning, lasting less than an hour. Everything went well. The surgeon is cautiously opptunistic, but will not say it is a success for several days given Melissa's history. They say she will be in hospital 4-5 days. She would really like to be home by the weekend. The leak she had from the contrast was right at the staple they had put in last December to close the stoma so it was not a problem. Thank you God!!!!!!

Don't worry I'm not keeping anything from you, I just don't know anything from my test yet. When I first called the doc was on vacation. The second call a week and a day after my test I found out they still couldn't tell me anything because he wanted to present it at Monday meeting. So I called on Tuesday and found out they didn't get to my case so I will find out next week....thats one week before surgery. I personally think something bad showed up but maybe he just wants to make sure. Either way I wish he would call me or have someone call and tell me whats going on.