Getting Stretched!

Well, we finally got an answer to all our questions today! He will be getting the procedure where they go down into the esophogus and stretch it. He has a stricter(medical term)half-way down his esophogus and Dr. Ashraf said he thinks its GVHD, but would not know unless a biopsy is done. So they will do that while they are doing the procedure on him. They will set up the appointment and let us know when to be there. He has lost 4 more pounds because of not being able to swallow food good. He is mainly sticking to a liquid diet, which includes Ensure Plus at least twice a day. He will be relieved when this is over and he can eat better food and not take so long to eat(Gil and Davis)! They are talking about putting him on a LIGHT steroid after they do the procedure to try to get the GVHD disease under better control. Hopefully not a long term thing! This will make his appetite increase so he liked that idea but can cause muscle weakness, he DID NOT like that! They are also going to start setting up his 1 year tests from the bone marrow transplant!!! YEAH! I am looking forward to that because I know God has a plan for him to stick around for a while! We met the assistant baseball coach for the Alabama baseball team today, B.J Green. He has leukemia and is going in soon for his bone marrow transplant. We tried to encourage him and told him if he needed to talk, Terry is the only one that can relate to what he is going through! We gave them our #s and wished him the best and told him to look to God for his strength to get through this! We have been keeping up with him through Kristina(his girlfriend is in her nursing class) and also he has a blogspot too! Connie(works @ SCS)introduced us to him, she is friends with B.J.'s mom. They also know the Christmas's(Jan & Shannon) and B.J. played baseball with Chad Langston, he was our ring barer in mine and T's wedding! It is a small world! More news on the family! We talked to Kenny and Lois is doing about the same. She is in a private room now and giving him things to do for her. Terry talked to Rick Rockhill and they had to cut him open to take out his gallbladder. He still has a fever because of the infection that was in his body, but hope that will go away soon! He called late last night and told us that Paul Davis(some of you might remember his music)had a heart attack yesterday, on his 60th birthday! Pray that he comes through this ok! Butch(Terry's brother) is doing OK and has decided to retire! Yeah, no more stress! And Karen will soon this summer retire too! We got a few more years and children to finish putting through College before we can consider that! Keep the prayers coming especially as we get closer to the bone marrow test! It should be within the next month! We love all of you for hanging in here with us through this long journey! Hugs and kisses to you all! Alyce