Well, Jess and I took our 9th ride in an ambulance last night. He just didn't seem to be feeling very well on Thursday. We put him in his bed for the night and Chris started writing in his journal when all of a sudden Jess became very sick and heaved up a lot of liquid. Chris yelled to me, I ran to the suction machine and began suctioning his mouth in fear he was not breathing. I told mom to call 911 and within a few minutes the EMT's, ambulance and police were at our door. Luckily, he did start breathing and his vitals were good. We were afraid of aspiration so we took him to the E.R. It will be 4 months on Sunday since we spent our first terrifying night in the same E.R. before he was lifeflighted to Boise.
He had a lung exray and an exray of the feeding tube in his stomach. His lung exray was good but we decided to spend the night to check out the feeding tube. In the morning we had another stomach exray with barium and found that his feeding tube was blocking his intestine. A very kind surgeon released the balloon on the tube and pulled it away from the intestine. We also had a CT scan of his brain which showed no changes from the last one we had at St. Al's in July and blood tests which were also all normal. He had a flu shot on Wednesday which could have contributed to the nausea. After a long day, we brought him home tonight, just got him out of the bathtub and after 48 hours without sleep we are going to bed.
Before we say goodnight...we want to thank all of the medical professionals for their very kind, caring attention to Jess. Most everyone either knew of the accident or were there the night it happened and were very compassionate and kind to all of us. We again are blessed with wonderful people around us. Good night...
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