G.I.

And I'm not talking about G.I. Joe.

Orion had his 5th colonoscopy and 3rd endoscopy on Monday, October 27 at Children's Mercy in downtown Kansas City. At 11, Orion has been living with U.C. since he was 2.5 years old, however it was his third birthday before he was diagnosed by Dr. Sarah Barlow at Cardinal Glennon in St. Louis. Since then he's been on a variety of medicines (Pentasa, Colazal, Prednisone, Imuran, Rowasa). He's had a scope every other year; he just loves the clean out procedure. Ugh!

Children's Mercy in K.C. has an interesting approach to G.I. procedures. We were in and out in less than three hours. We arrived at 8:15 (15 minutes late due to horrid traffic!). We spent half an hour waiting, half an hour filling out paperwork, less than hour for the two procedures, and about 30 minutes in recovery. Orion was completely OUT of it after the procedure. Imagine an 11 year drunk! Not pretty. But they "needed the bed" and wheeled him out, poured him into the back of Grace and we were on our way by 11:00. He slept most of the way home and felt much better by the time we arrived in the 'Burg at Noon.

Orion had no problems (other than some noxious gas) that afternoon and we spent the afternoon reading, napping, and enjoying a small fire. Both J and I felt that Children's did rather rush us. It was difficult driving with Orion (all out of it and unhappy) till he passed out again. The doctor was busy and our consult consisted of "Orion had patchy inflammation which might indicate Crohn's instead of U.C. It will be a week before the biopsies come back. But I won't be able to call you for two as I'll be out of town next week." And to top it off, we didn't get any pictures to bring home! (Orion usually enjoys a lil' show and tell in science class!)

So now we wait. We should know something in a few weeks' time. As always I'll keep you posted.