he was just in a lot of pain. the blood has never gone away, but we started seeing a lot more of it over the past week. i was so nervous that our trip to mexico caused this, but dr. volak cleared him for it and really thought he would be ok.
it may sound silly, but we love st. john's hospital. it's incredibly clean, the staff are some of the nicest people i've ever met, and everyone is very attentive. they immediately got travis into a bed and started on a bag of fluids and pushed some dilaudid. he started feeling better and was able to rest.
they took him back for a CT scan {and i started wishing i had gone ahead and grabbed my pull-over. it was 100 degrees outside, but pretty chilly inside the hospital, so even though i was wearing sweatpants and a long-sleeved t-shirt, i was a little cold.
we waited to get the results of travis's scans, and the dr. was pretty alarmed when he saw it. we had given him travis's history but he said he had never seen a scan that looked that bad, so he called adult gastroenterology for a consult. he was able to talk to dr. clark {the very first doctor who saw travis} so he was familiar with travis and told him this was to be expected.
the hospital pushed another dose of steroids (120! -- he's still on 30) and started him on an antibiotic. they also asked that he get into see his GI before the end of the week, so he'll be following up with volak before the end of the week.
thanks for thinking of us! people have said they didn't realize he didn't still feel well. i don't really post about it when we're not at the hospital because it's a lot of the same thing every day, but he's really not a whole lot better than the day we came home from the hospital the second week in april. i have slowly seen tiny improvements, and right now i'm taking the small victories. so again, thanks for continuing to pray for him and think of us.
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