Day Two in the hospital

This morning we showed up to the CCU (Cardiac Care Unit) very similar to the ICU in the amount of supervision each patient gets. The nurse was very nice to let the three of us in the room and close the door. We had to be very, very quiet...no not hunting rabbits...trying not to get kicked out! He was feeling better, but still perplexed as to what happened with everything last night. They didn't do the procedure until late, I didn't leave until I talked to the doctor about 7:15 and Randy was still knocked out from the drugs. He opened his eyes when I kissed him goodbye and told him I loved him. He repeated it to me and then over and over again. I said something to the doctor and turned back around and he was out cold again. It was a little bit humorous. Needless to say, when he came to he was alone in the CCU with no idea where anyone was or what happened. I told him a little on the phone last night, but told him that the doctor would tell him more in the morning.

And yet, the doctor didn't really tell him much other than he needed to come back to see him in 6 weeks. After seeing Randy again tonight, without the boys in tow (thanks again Walt), we were able to talk like two humans. He is feeling so much better. He has been walking around with all this stuff going on in his esophagus and didn't even know it until Friday morning. I hope once things calm down and we get back to normal again we will be ready to deal with the next phase of this mess. It seems the doctor found some abnormal cells, he called the Barretts syndrome, that he will need to biopsy using another endoscope in about 6 weeks. Once he does that we will know what we are dealing with. He also mentioned that Randy has a fairly large iron-store in his liver. That can be indicative of a genetic disease that they are now running the test for. In looking it up, I have come across the name: hemachromatosis. I have no idea what it will mean for him.

I am telling you, if we were as lucky in the lottery as we are in medical issues, we would be rich. Crazy, stinkin' rich!