12/13/2017 Endoscopy

I've been having trouble swallowing.  I've choked on my medication a few times, and on food.  I now take my pills with applesauce (I was using milk, but that stopped working).  I had a swallow test done, which showed some spillage.  Yesterday I had an upper endoscopy.  I arrived at the hospital at 7:00am for the 8:00am procedure.  After I changed into a hospital gown, they put me on a gurney, then a nurse inserted an IV.  After a few minutes, I was wheeled down the hall.  They put an oxygen tube in my nose, then the anesthesiologist put something into my IV.  He said was a numbing agent, because whatever he was giving me next may have a burning sensation.  Then I was asked to turn onto my side, and a nurse put the mouthpiece in.  I rested there waiting for a few minutes, then I was waking up in the recovery room.   Done.  I don't remember the anesthesiologist giving me anything else.  After I got dressed, I waited for the doctor to come in with the results.  She didn't see anything in my throat, so wants me to have a CT scan done of my throat and then follow up with a doctor in the Otolaryngology department.  She also told me that she saw something red in my stomach, so did a biopsy.  What she didn't need to do was to give me pictures of the inside of my throat and my stomach.  Yuck.  😊  So, we'll wait for the results of the biopsy, and combine the throat CT scan with my regular, every-three-month chest/abdomen/pelvis CT scan.  I'll let you know the results when I get them.

I felt fine after I left the hopsital, just still very tired.  I thought I would be fine in a few hours.  I climbed into bed as soon as I got home.  Was it late morning, early afternoon?  I don't remember.  I woke up a few times, was able to eat a little dinner (soft foods, as per instructions), and stayed in bed waking every few hours until my alarm went off this morning.

Now to schedule those tests....