Its been a while

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It's been a while since I posted anything.  Not much had really been happening, until I started noticing some trends, and not with my throat.  And this is where all of you who get grossed out by medical stuff may want to dip out...there's your warning....

Over the past year or so I guess I've noticed occasional blood in the toilet when I would have a bowel movement with some clotting.  I never really thought anything of it because it was so sporadic.  Well lately it started to get to be more.  And lately my bowel movements have changed.  To being one of three ways.  Terribly constipated, watery diarrhea or like a super loose cow pie.  I told ya if you don't like medical stuff you should have left 🤷‍♀️.  Well, a long with that, I have been feeling nothing but very very sick.  Like I can't eat a dang thing besides crackers and occasionally a PLAIN dinner roll.  I mean not even just peanut butter on it, without doubling over with such severe stomach cramps almost in tears in the bathroom.  

As many of you may or may not know mom has survived and beaten colon cancer, and some other family members have had polyps removed.  So, I'm now on the road for some testing for this.  I'm currently at the U of M waiting for a CT scan of my lower abdomen to check some other things out.  I got some blood work done to rule out some infections and that all looked great!  

I am a soup LOVER so I tried so hard to go to Panera as I got to the cities early to get some soup to try to get some food in me and I took one bite and nope nope nope.  It's so frustrating.  So, the Dr I spoke with yesterday wants me to take zofran (anti nausea med) daily and at least try to get ONE protein shake in a day.  Just sip on it all day long.  Yes, I NEED to lose weight, but this is NOT the way.  Just yesterday to today I lost 3lbs.  So, I hope they figure something out.  

That's about all I know for now.  Dr. Gray is doing a trach change and they are doing the colonoscopy the same surgery time as of right now on Jan 17th.  

I hope you all have a wonderful and Merry Christmas 🌲
Love, Ann

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