No Food Tube

Yesterday, Dr. Lee at Hoag Memorial in Newport Beach took Susette in to the procedure room to install a food tube. The first part of the procedure is to send a probe that goes all the way to her stomach to look for the best possible area inside of her stomach to do the incision. As the probe was descending her throat the monitor revealed a part of her throat/esophagus that was bleeding. He took photos of this area that he showed me later. This concerned him a great deal because the food tube procedure would seriously aggravate the inflamed area. He decided to inject the bleeding area with something that would make it stop bleeding and hopefully accelerate the healing. He also decided not to install the food tube at this time. His plan: to wait until Sunday, carefully monitor Susette and her throat and see if enough healing occurs to attempt food on Sunday. If this goes well, he will not install a food tube. If it doesn't go well, he will wait a week and a half, install the stomach feeding tube and she'll have to wait 6-8 weeks before it can be removed.

Please pray for miraculous healing of her throat so that she does not have to have the stomach tube. She has been so pumped full of stuff, poked, shot, prodded and put through such misery in the last 7 months i am just praying that she can finally get on with recovery and healing. Please join me in this prayer. God bless you.