TWO IN HOSPITAL

I came to Granbury to be with Nancy through her hip joint replacement surgery. She is doing great. Today she walked again on her new leg and then got a good day's sleep after they kept waking her last night.

What we never expected was for me to go down to the ER and am now in a room one floor down from Nancy. Yesterday I woke up early and when I took my morning sit on the pot I found blood in the stool. I ate breakfast, washed dishes and took my computer to the hospital to stay with Nancy. Her son John came in. When Nancy's lunch came she sent us to the cafeteria to eat lunch. After lunch I again went to the pot and passed a lot of blood and what looked like clots. I considered driving to Abilene to my doctor and hospital but Nancy and John convinced me that I would be better off going to the ER here and checking myself in. After a lot of conversation with the doctors about my situation I came to the conclusion that my normal routine of straining to have a BM may have ruptured a little spot. They suggested that I needed a colostomy that I had told my doctor just Monday a week ago during my annual checkup I wouldn't have until I saw blood in my stool. I had never had any before. Now that I have seen some I have agreed to one because they can schedule it tomorrow and I can go back with Nancy to her house and help take care of her starting next week. Her daughter Vicky had planned to work from Granbury next week to be with her mother during the first worse week of healing. She has offered to help get my car back to Granbury and use her mother's van to get her home. She will go home either tomorrow or Monday. I am guessing she and I both will go home tomorrow.

Today John brought Nancy down to my room in a wheelchair to see me. Then this afternoon Vicky brought me some causual clothes to replace the open back hospital gown and I got to go up to Nancy's room and visit her. The hospital required that I ride in a wheel chair but I went. I walked from the door of the room.

Right now I am taking the required two liters of MoviPrep that is moving my system to prep it for the colonoscopy tomorrow. And I am chapped!