Sunday, 21 October 2012

Tuesday's gastroscopy under sedation was fun - they considered me great risk (two heart attacks, and very low blood pressure - they checked few times hoping it would get up, but it stayed at 90/60ish), so they put me in the children's room, because it has best monitoring.  Might be so - but my legs were sticking out from knees down, so had to curl, except the width wasn't great either, when I was on my back my arms were just at the bars.  Fun...

So, it was gastroscopy, and they were meant to take some biopsy samples - not sure if they did, but wouldn't be surprised, because I was terribly sore for some three days after.  My jaw wasn't happy either: they were doing it via my mouth, but due to the fact that my right jaw joint is gone (as in: doesn't function, doesn't exist any more), they had to wait till I was well sedated to open my jaws and put the stabilising ring around my mouth - and yes, that was sore as well when I woke up.

I don't have the official results, but a friendly nurse had to leave my chart on my bed for a moment - long enough for me to have a quick look at what they wrote they found.  Nice big (some 2 inches diameter) oesaphagal hiatus hernia, i.e. extra sack where the oesophagus enter the stomach.  Gastritis = significant irritation of the stomach lining.  Oesophagitis = some food goes back from the stomach.  And some sort of infection, don't ask me what.

Took me Wednesday and Thursday to recover properly, and on Friday had a fall/an accident - but that's another night's story...

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