Not so great.

I must warn you I am writing this post under the influence! I am still a little drowsy from the sedation, took a pain pill a little while ago and don't feel great at the moment. I had my colonoscopy and upper GI endoscopy this morning. The prep was pretty bad. The stuff that you have to drink for the colonoscopy is horrible. I almost threw up several times. It was really tough. And of course I was up and down all night going to the bathroom, so I didn't get much sleep. Then we had to get up at 4am to get ready to be at the hospital at 5:30. (and just a note- it doesn't help to get there early because they aren't even there until 5:30!) My tests were scheduled for 7:00 so we waited in little area on a  small hospital bed separated by the other patients having outpatient procedures done by nothing more than a curtain-fun. They wheeled me back about 10 till 7 and I got to talk briefly to the surgeon, I was a little sidetracked however because my veins kept blowing so they kept having to redo my IV and when they finally found a good vein she said it was "positional" and kept wiggling it around to find a good spot- owwweee. Anyway, they finally started the IV the nurse ask me to bite on this mouth piece thing and asked to me roll over . . . . . . and the next thing I know Jarrod is sitting next to me talking on the cell phone!

The surgeon removed a spot from the area between by esophagus and stomach when they did the endoscopy, I guess it was just a polyp of some sort. He also said I have severe acid reflux (which we knew) and I even have the pictures to prove it- don't worry I won't post those, they are pretty gross! Then when he did the colonoscopy he found a Lipoma which is just a benign growth. (The picture is pretty interesting, it's cool to see your insides, but again I won't share!)  Guess what? It's SUPER rare in the colon. Yep. Leave it to me to get something really rare. He has only seen one other person with this in his whole career (does that give you confidence about him operating on me or what?) And that lady's was so large it was cutting off her small intestines. Luckily mine isn't that big. . .yet. He told Jarrod that I needed to have it removed or it would cause other more harmful problems. BUT he has NO idea how he is going to do the surgery. (haha- not kidding) He has to do some thinking and researching since mine isn't as connected as the one he did before or something (I am hoping that's a good thing).  We are meeting with him on Thursday to go over the options. So great, they found my problem, right?! He is going to remove this "thing" and I will be all better, right? Uh, wrong. He said most likely this is just a coincidence that they found this today and the pain I am having isn't coming from this growth. Ugh. I have no idea what will happen now. I know I will be having surgery in the future, I just hope and pray that somehow he is wrong and the Lipoma is what was causing my pain after all. We don't know anything about the surgery, like if it is outpatient or not and how evasive it will be. I tried to look it up on the internet but there isn't that much info about it. I guess we will find out on Thursday.

Today has been kind of rough, I am still having my abdominal pain and it was really bad after we got home, so Jarrod called the nurse from this morning and she said to go ahead and take the pain meds I have been taking, that the air they use to blow you up during the procedure was probably making it worse for me today. I am trying to take it easy and nap, I just feel really tired and sore. I hope tomorrow I will be feeling better!

Jarrod's mom came and got Stratton yesterday afternoon and he is staying with them until tomorrow. Hopefully, I will be feeling much better and we can go to Searcy. Jarrod's dad had to work last weekend so we haven't got to do father's day with him yet!