Our Angel

Chase Maddox
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Having so many doctors involved in Chase's care makes things really complicated sometimes, although we are truly thankful for them. The communication is not great and the course of care from each of them seems to change with the wind. We had cancelled the endoscopy, but in doing so we caused a firestorm of phone calls. By the end of the calls and our meeting with the doctors last week, we decided to put it back on. The procedure was performed yesterday. Chase done a great job with the fasting and seems to be feeling a lot better today as the anesthesia has worn off. They were able to take biopsies from his esophagus, stomach and the top of his small intestine. This completes getting biopsies from his entire GI track. The doctor said his esophagus looked really good and we should have the biopsy results back by Thursday. The treatment plan all depends on the biopsy results. If the eosinophils are in his esophagus he will have to take systemic steroids and if they are not, they plan to use a topical steroids over a course of 4 months. The topical steroid would be much safer and without side effects. Even though the treatment is longer, we pray this is the treatment we can go with.
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