Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Happy Anniversary to Us! One year to the day since we quit smoking!

We headed to the hospital nice and early this morning to get my stomach tube put in. I'm not sure what I was thinking on how they would do this (maybe in denial!) but they did go down the throat into the stomach. I really don't remember much of this at all other than a shot of the numbing spray in my throat, my telling the doc that I have a sensitive gag reflex, another shot of the nasty tasting numbing spray, and then waking up in post op!!! Not sure what they gave me but it knocked me on my butt. If I think real hard I can remember some of the trip home and up to bed.

Needless to say I slept a good chunk of the day. I woke up at one point and the stomach hurt pretty good. Not the incision but the muscles. The tube goes in right below the diaphragm and that upper couple of cans of the six pack (that I used to have!) were cramped up something bad. Andrea gave me a couple of Vicodin and I was back out for a few more hours.

I woke up later and was able to get up and eat dinner. We sat down to watch some TV but didn't last very long before I was out again. Andrea's read through all the instructions and is ready to go, she also helped me to clean around it before bed. Still trying to figure out the best way to wear and tape up the tube, it will take some trial and error to come up with the most comfortable way.

The rash is still hanging in there! The white heads are focused mostly around the nose and is looking pretty gross! It is a really weird feeling - it's kind of like a mask on the face, that's what it feels like on the face all the time and when I was it. Well we most definitely know that the Erbitux is working!

Wednesday I get my mask and bite block made for RT and another dose of Erbitux.