Something has Changed

 

Audrey says "YeeeHAWWW!" Playing in the pre op while waiting for her dilation. Dr Skarda just came and said she was super tight already, like we suspected, and he carefully dilated her all the way to 15 mm. He said that the stricture didn't look like a ring of scar tissue (like we've dealt with in the past), but rather like half of it was sort of stuck together or collapsed. Our awesome nurse had an esophagus issue of his own and he was talking just now about his own history of strictures that are caused by inflammation from acid reflux. The way he described them made me think Audrey's stricture was more one of inflammation like that rather than from scarring. We had a hiccup getting a refill on her Prevacid prescription for a couple of weeks this past month plus she had a little head cold a couple weeks ago, so maybe this stricture is a result of inflammation from those.We'll come back for another dilation in two weeks. Thank you for all of your kind words and prayers!