Re: 's Gastroenterologist Appointment Today

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Dan, At least you have yhe answer that you both needed. At least it

is not more cancer. This can be taken care of. Hopefully in time it

will get better. It should. With all our Prayers it will get better.

Ingrid

> Well we went in for the appointment with the gastroenterologist

> (couldn't they find a word easier to spell?) to go over the

results of

> her most recent Cat Scan. He said that he didn't find anything

bad,

> which was a lot of pressure off our minds. He said that her

> rectum/colon below where they did the resection had narrowed and

that

> was causing her the pain. He went on to say that sometimes it

improves

> over time and other times it never does. He prescribed some

> medications to help her ease the painfullness of going to the

> bathroom. We'll see if they work. Couple of them are over the

counter

> stuff, he said to use those for a couple of weeks and if they don't

> work then he also gave her a prescription for another medication

(sorry

> can't think of the name right now) that should do the job. He said

> that if the pain continues even after these medications then we'll

go

> back in and he'll think of something else. Other than that she is

> doing good.

>

> Dan &