A Day In The Life Of A Cotton: Follow up EGD

Lily and I went back to Boston just for an overnight stay Wendesday/Thursday this week. The Boston team wanted to see how her esophagus looked after having the stent out for a couple weeks.

Our babysitter came over Wednesday at noon to watch Rose and Cora until Joe got home from work, and then Lily and I packed up the van and hit the road. Thankfully, she did great on the 3 1/2 hour drive. The weather was good and so was traffic. She got her standard Covid test Wednesday evening, and we got the call for her procedure time.. not until 2:30PM!! Normally she goes at 7:30am. So we hung out at our hotel Thursday morning and finally headed over to the hospital around noon.

When the doctor came out to talk to me afterwards, it was all good news. Hooray! Her esophagus was at 10mm. Just for reference, it was at 1mm with her stricture last month. He injected some steroids in the tissue that was still healing a little from the incisions he made a couple weeks ago. The steroids are suppose to help further scarring. Then he dilated her esophagus up to 15mm. That's the widest it's ever been. He recommended coming back in 3 to 4 weeks for another follow up. If things still look good then, we can push check ups even further apart. We drove home afterwards, and made it home just after 9:30PM.

We are so grateful for good news and a good trip. Now we need to get to work on oral intake.

Rose was rather clingy today (understandably), but otherwise is doing great. We're enjoying time in our play room and playing outside now that it's warming up a bit. Cora is cruising and very close to walking. She loves giving us hugs and saying hi. Joe and I think both Cora and Lily's first word is Hi :)

Joe is very busy at work. His project is going full steam ahead for the next couple months.