Asher Update

Asher's endoscopy and pH Probe is scheduled for Thursday, April 28 and 29th. We have to be at the hospital at 8 AM Thursday. The endoscopy itself will happen at 9 AM - right after they put him under general anesthesia. After the endoscopy, they'll insert the pH Probe, do an x-ray to get perfect positioning, then bring him to the recovery room and allow him to wake up from the anesthesia. Then, we'll move to a hospital room for the next 24 hours while he has the pH Probe in place. The plan is to remove the probe at 9 AM on Friday, April 29th. Then we get to go home and recuperate.

The probe itself will be inserted through Asher's nose and into his esophagus. By measuring the acid that may be splashing into his esophagus, it will tell us if he still has reflux and, if so, how much and when he's refluxing. We then use that information to guide us in our next course of action.

They'll have to put mitts on Asher's cute little hands while the probe is in place. Since it's irritating, he'll try to pull out the probe. We get to entertain him for the 24 hours that the probe is in place so that he doesn't try to pull it out.

In preparation for Asher's pH Probe, we have had to stop giving him the medicine we've been giving him. First we had to remove the Prevacid. Today we had to stop the Reglan and Erythromycin.

Interestingly, his eating has both taken a nose dive AND improved. He's eating table food at school, but he refuses any sort of solid food at home. Plus, today and yesterday he seems to have a lot more energy and seems to be a lot happier -- at least at school. At home he's the same ol' adorable Asher.

This is really one of those times where I wish the "vulcan mind-meld" was a real thing - where we can go into Asher's adorable brain and figure out exactly what is going on with him. Guessing is REALLY hard.

So, please wish that time goes fast for us - that Friday comes quickly, and that we get some answers on what really is going on in that adorable little belly.