I Think He's Sleeping

When I left our boy, he was pretty sleepy.

I still think he's better, even though it was a pretty rough day.

At the end of the day, around six, he started throwing up a lot, and I got worried extra, because he was choking on it, coughing and coughing. I think his abdomen isn't strong enough to get it out, and then he can't breathe, but I don't want him to get pneumonia from inhaling that stuff.

I also googled the dayights out of his condition, and it seems to me that they used a part of his intestines called his "distal ileum" to make the inner tubes from his kidneys to his side. And now what's left of his intestines near the distal ileum, where the cutting and tugging took place, is freaked out of its mind and has shut down.

From the diagrams I could find online, it looks like this distal ileum is about in the center of his abdomen. And since his stomach is also sort of paralyzed, then the shutdown must go from his stomach, at the top of his digestive system, down to the ileum, about halfway down. The lower part of his system is probably fine, but there's nothing there, so no real way to know.

So that's probably more information than anyone wanted at dinner time. hahaha

But overall--overall--he seemed better today. The ileus might not be better, I agree, but his health seemed better, just his overall health, because, after all, yesterday, he was literally starving from living on sugar/salt water for eight days. Today he had good stuff that looked like milk.

Actually, it looked like pina colada mix, and for a brief moment, I thought, hmmmmm, a little pina colada mixed into that bag--could it REALLY hurt?

JUST KIDDING!

More tomorrow.

Also, for those of you who might be anxious to hear how the pathology report comes out--I plan to post the news INSTANTLY after we get it. So if it isn't posted, that means we are still waiting.

Thank you for your unbelievably faithful and long-lasting love and care!

Your cowpeople