Sunday was a rough day. Paul had a protein shake in the morning and tried to eat lunch. It got stuck in the middle, so after several tries he gave up. He couldn't even get a sip of milk down. It was blocked. The blockage causes him to vomit up whatever is in the esophagus at the time. He wouldn't even hear of the suggestion to call the doctor or go to urgent care, so he went back to work. I called him often just to check on him. He came home, wanted dinner, took a small nibble and that wouldn't go down either. Took him 3 hours to get down a protein shake. I mentioned this episode to the Oncologist this afternoon (Monday). The doctor immediately took him to the back room and had a nurse put in a IV then proceeded to get some fluids into him. It's not the blockage that is the immediate concern, because that'll get checked out on Tuesday when we revisit the Thoracic Surgeon for his third endoscopy, but the fact that he's getting dehydrated.
Oncologist wants us to see a general surgeon, here in the valley where we live, to have a port put into Paul's chest for the chemotherapy, and he would like to start chemotherapy on March 18th. There was also the mention of a feeding tube. I will talk with the Thoracic Surgeon tomorrow when we are at USC about all this too.
Looks like we are going to have a couple of busy weeks ahead.
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