What A Difference a Day Makes-New Situation

Tawanda & Remington thanks for your kind thoughts and prayers 🙏 it is appreciated.

Take care 🙂 and God bless Russ

Thanks, big G for your prayers and support. Appreciated.

Take care, God Bless-Russ

Thanks for your good wishes Chill, yes you never know what's around the corner.

Take Care God Bless-Russ

Here is an UPDATE on my situation. All is good Now. Thank You for All Your Concerns and Well Wishes

Thank you Dagney for your prayers and concern it is appreciated.

My most recent happening was they thought I had A retropharyngeal abscess which is very serious and was told to report to the emergency room right away and check in to start treatment with antibiotics.

This was on Sept. 10, 2022.

I started receiving treatment of antibiotics as such for about 3 days when an MRI ordered by the spine team of the area revealed sort of a blank spot or a fluid area rather than an abscess as was first suspected. The spine team wanted to make sure no vertebrates had a chance of being affected.

I am told this is due to the ravages of radiation treatment over time and aging, the gift that keeps on giving.

While I was there my ENT questioned my swallowing ability and wanted me to get a swallow test which I agreed to.

Unfortunately, it showed silent aspiration and I didn't do well on it.

So then I agreed to a feeding tube being put in.

Keep in mind I was fully eating when I went in but I can tell swallowing is not perfect.

I tend to cough off and on while eating so I think that is protecting my lungs so far while I was in the hospital I had another chest x-ray and it shows my lungs are clear.

I am going to try to balance formula with some lighter eating.

I am scheduled with speech therapy to work on my swallowing ability.

But my age and past radiation history I think work against me, we will see. I think they say as you age past radiation can affect you later in life.

This can be removed easily if I get better.

This will be a big help in keeping my weight up and staying healthy

I finally got home Saturday 9-17-22 late afternoon.

Still didn't feel well and was having issues with my medical supplier over formula and supplies doesn't help when you are trying to recover.

I woke up Tuesday 9-20-22 and there was blood in my feeding tube, so I flushed it out but blood started coming back in.

I called Hershey and the folks who put it in and of course here I go back up to the hospital again.

Luckily a Doctor, the Surgeon who put it in and a third Doctor attended me and flushed old blood mostly out of my stomach and got it cleaned out and serviced around my feeding tube and used silver nitrate sticks to cauterize the area, and stopped all bleeding. The surgeon who put it in felt that the bleeding on the outside was following the tube into my stomach. I was released to go home after they determined that there was no active internal bleeding.

I am so thankful to God for the way this worked out and I didn't have to be admitted back into the hospital.

I am now back home and thank the Good Lord for watching over me.

Thanks, Duggie for checking in on me, good to hear from you. Sometimes we never know what's coming but hopefully not much except enjoying life. This one surprised the heck out of me, I never saw it coming. As you say it is just a great blessing the way it turned out even though it was a little rough on me at least it was NOT cancer.

Take Care God Bless-Russ