No Surgery

Yesterday was an extremely long day. We arrived at Dr. Hamilton's office at 8:45 am. Then from that meeting there was a CT and blood work done. After the CT was done a radiology tech came and told us that Jeff was going to be admitted. By the way the hospital changed from Stormont-Vail to St. Francis (both are in Topeka).
So we go up to the room. All the nurse could tell us was that the CT showed an obstruction. By this time it is about 4:30 pm. Dr. Hamilton comes to talk to us about 5:30 pm regarding what the CT showed. He did state that Jeff had multiple bowel loops, but could not tell for sure where the obstruction was. He also saw some tumor progression on the right kidney, but did not indicate that it had infiltrated the kidney. He said that the right kidney appeared so deflated that if it was working at all that it was minimal. He felt that removing the right kidney would give him a greater success of getting that tumor since it was attached to the kidney. As for the blood work I don't have any of those results.
Dr. Hamilton wanted an upper GI tract study done because he said that he could not tell for sure where the obstruction was other than it was in his lower bowels/colon. He said the surgery was not an emergency, but that Jeff would continue to be sick until the obstruction was removed.
Jeff decided to come home last nite without having the upper GI tract study done. We are going to call Dr. Hamilton's office Monday to get the test scheduled for as early as possible. Once Jeff has had time to process those results we will schedule a surgery with Dr. Hamilton.
Dr. Tim said that Jeff should try to stick with liquid foods and stay away from the solids to keep the bacteria down. I think that is all from the 12-hour day yesterday. I will update you as we move through this process. Hope all is well with everyone!!! Take care!!!