Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Finding positives in the negatives
These pants were tight on him in December....as of now he has lost 33lbs. He is ready for swimsuit season!!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Pictures!
On Wednesday Kyle went in to get a video capsule endoscopy. He had this belt on and the little pack and they were used to receive the recordings from the little video pill inside kyle. He looked like he had a bomb strapped to him it was pretty funny. We will be getting the results from that test hopefully on Monday!
This is picture from a couple of weeks ago when we were in the ER from 11 to almost 5 in the morning. Kyle was able to sleep, you can't really tell but he is hooked up to the IV right now, he was very dehydrated.They gave him a a drink that had liodocane (spelling) in it to numb his stomach and then they gave him more zofran in his IV on top of the pills he had already taken... he was very sick. And he has about 10 blankets on him. It was a very, very long night. We are so glad that Kyle has not been this sick for awhile. You can see how skinny he is in the other picture, its crazy!!! He is still the cutest husband in the world, I am so grateful for him. He still makes me laugh every day!
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Past few weeks
As many of you know Kyle has been sick for quite awhile...over six weeks to be exact. It has been a very scary roller coaster ride that started December 29th. We went to sleep on the 28th healthy and happy. Kyle woke up about three hours later throwing up, with a fever chills and has been sick ever since. The next day we went to urgent care to see what was going on with him. The doctor diagnosed him with gastroenteritis, and told him it would be gone in about 3-5 days, that came and went. So he went back to the doctor who then told him it must be bacterial gave him and antibiotic and told him he would be better in 48 hours. So we headed up to Park City for his families annual snowboarding trip. We ended up in the ER with kyle because he was so nauseous and in so much pain. By this time he had lost 15lbs. They told him it was gastroenteritis and gave him an IV antibiotic and told us again in 48 he would be feeling better. But we had heard that before!
The next night we were in the ER again because kyle was shaking so hard he could hardly function. It was very scary. We rushed back and the Dr decided that maybe this was something more. He said that as doctors "when they hear hooves they think horse and sometimes it turns out to be zebra". Kyle is officially a zebra. They did a CT scan and nothing showed up, all of his blood work and labs came back to show he was normal, dehydrated but otherwise normal. But he continued to get worse. They started treating him for ulcers and for two weeks he took the ulcer medication. Two weeks after we got home from Utah we were in the ER again because kyle was having very severe stomach nausea and stomach pain. They did an ultra sound to see if there were kidney stones or gall bladder stones. But it all came back negative. They gave him a referral to see a GI doctor.
So after waiting another week we were finally able to get into see the specialist. He decided that Kyle needed to have an endoscopy and a colonoscopy. Kyle was not to excited about doing all of this... but we needed to get in there and see what was going on. We were all praying that it was Ulcers so that the doctor could fix them when he did the endoscopy but yet again no such luck. The doctor found what look like little cold sores in his digestive tract. We are now waiting to get back the biopsy results but the doctor is calling what he has "non specif colitis" and has been treating him for Crohn's disease. Both of these are very scary because they are life long and there is treatment for them but no cure. So we will fight this for the rest of our lives.
Next week Kyle is going to go in for a "video capsule endoscopy" , basically he will swallow a little "pill camera" and it will take pictures of his small intestine so that they can see if he has more of those little sores and to see if it is inflamed. We are praying that the medication that the doctor has started him on will start to give him some relief. He is now almost 30lbs lighter than when this all started.
We are so grateful for all of the love and support of all of our friends and family. We are very grateful for all of your prayers. This has been one of the hardest things that we have ever had to face but we know that our Heavenly Father loves us and that he will take care of us. We have had some pretty amazing experiences that have only strengthen our testimonies and our love of the Lord.
Kyle throughout all of this has been such a wonderful example to me. He has had such a great attitude and has been so brave. Kyle and I always have a hard time keeping secrets from each other and usually spoil Christmas and birthday presents for each other because we are so excited to give them to each other! So I came home from the temple Friday afternoon to find Kyle has some surprises for me that he couldn't' wait to give me and I couldn't wait to receive. He had hidden my very favorite candy and I had to find it, then after I found it he told me if I ate all of the candy and it gave me a headache I could go get some Ibprophen... and I was like "ok that was totally random" and then it hit me that he just wanted me to go look in the medicine cabinet. I went over and opened it up and he had bought me UP!! I was so excited it was exactly what I wanted. And of course he bought me flowers... lillies which are my favorite. He is the most amazing person I know and I am so grateful for him. I learn so much from him everyday. I love him!!!
The next night we were in the ER again because kyle was shaking so hard he could hardly function. It was very scary. We rushed back and the Dr decided that maybe this was something more. He said that as doctors "when they hear hooves they think horse and sometimes it turns out to be zebra". Kyle is officially a zebra. They did a CT scan and nothing showed up, all of his blood work and labs came back to show he was normal, dehydrated but otherwise normal. But he continued to get worse. They started treating him for ulcers and for two weeks he took the ulcer medication. Two weeks after we got home from Utah we were in the ER again because kyle was having very severe stomach nausea and stomach pain. They did an ultra sound to see if there were kidney stones or gall bladder stones. But it all came back negative. They gave him a referral to see a GI doctor.
So after waiting another week we were finally able to get into see the specialist. He decided that Kyle needed to have an endoscopy and a colonoscopy. Kyle was not to excited about doing all of this... but we needed to get in there and see what was going on. We were all praying that it was Ulcers so that the doctor could fix them when he did the endoscopy but yet again no such luck. The doctor found what look like little cold sores in his digestive tract. We are now waiting to get back the biopsy results but the doctor is calling what he has "non specif colitis" and has been treating him for Crohn's disease. Both of these are very scary because they are life long and there is treatment for them but no cure. So we will fight this for the rest of our lives.
Next week Kyle is going to go in for a "video capsule endoscopy" , basically he will swallow a little "pill camera" and it will take pictures of his small intestine so that they can see if he has more of those little sores and to see if it is inflamed. We are praying that the medication that the doctor has started him on will start to give him some relief. He is now almost 30lbs lighter than when this all started.
We are so grateful for all of the love and support of all of our friends and family. We are very grateful for all of your prayers. This has been one of the hardest things that we have ever had to face but we know that our Heavenly Father loves us and that he will take care of us. We have had some pretty amazing experiences that have only strengthen our testimonies and our love of the Lord.
Kyle throughout all of this has been such a wonderful example to me. He has had such a great attitude and has been so brave. Kyle and I always have a hard time keeping secrets from each other and usually spoil Christmas and birthday presents for each other because we are so excited to give them to each other! So I came home from the temple Friday afternoon to find Kyle has some surprises for me that he couldn't' wait to give me and I couldn't wait to receive. He had hidden my very favorite candy and I had to find it, then after I found it he told me if I ate all of the candy and it gave me a headache I could go get some Ibprophen... and I was like "ok that was totally random" and then it hit me that he just wanted me to go look in the medicine cabinet. I went over and opened it up and he had bought me UP!! I was so excited it was exactly what I wanted. And of course he bought me flowers... lillies which are my favorite. He is the most amazing person I know and I am so grateful for him. I learn so much from him everyday. I love him!!!
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