Sunday, May 24, 2009

We had a scare yesterday--Tommy awoke vomiting & with severe constipation, etc.; so, to make a long story short, we spent the whole day at the emergency department at Beebe Hospital up in Lewes. The upshot, after a bunch of tests (and a favorable outcome regarding the constipation) is that I have to call the surgeon on Tuesday morning so that gall-bladder surgery can be scheduled. The official diagnosis is acute cholelithiasis, but the condition is better known to us lay people as gall stones. Tommy's CT scan a month ago indicated gall stones, but Dr. Raj had hoped the condition would clear up; unfortunately, though, it has worsened. At least Tommy was able to come home with me last night. The good news is that Tommy's liver, heart, lungs and intestines all looked basically healthy in the CT scan. Anyone who knows Tommy's history with Budweiser will be as surprised as I was at the fact that "there is no evidence of hepatomegaly or fatty infiltration of the liver." What a day!