On Leap Day, we celebrated getting my Gtube out. This was an outpatient procedure and the PA told me they would silver nitrate the rest of my granuloma, and recommended that I use the numbing cream that I used from work for prior silver nitrates because they don't numb at all.
I've started a program to try to run a 5k in May at our church. So Wil and I went to the gym and began the day running (Wil much further than I). Then I had acupuncture before the afternoon of getting my tube pulled.
For some reason I was more nervous about this procedure than some of my other surgeries, I guess the unknown is always scarier. So I took some Xanax that I had to help calm my nerves, and boy did it calm me down.
The g-tube was only held in by a plastic dome, and if you pull on it with enough pressure it just comes out. So when they started pulling I felt like I was being levitated off of the table, but it came out. It was uncomfortable in the silver nitrate hurt more because of how far down they did they chemical burn.
There is the table after the procedure. My Xanax hit me all at once and I don't remember much of the afternoon. We visited my friend in the hospital. On the way home, I insisted that Wil stop and get me every flavor of Sweet Tart rope he could find. Where I then saw someone from church while I was waiting in the car, of which I don't remember much either.
I had chemo the next Monday which went well. My neuropathy started acting up again and so Debby my symptom management NP, increased my Lyrica to three times a day. It was also time for another CT Scan. Since I'm now allergic to the IV dye, I have to premedicate with Benadryl and Prednisone.
The following week was Wilson's spring break. We were able to do lots of fun things, High Point children's museum, fishing and mountain bike riding with Wil, and just playing around the house.
Last Saturday, the boys ran in the St. Leo's 5k. Wilson won first in his age group, 30:21, he ran without stopping! Then Wil ran the 10k right after and he won 3rd in his age group!
