I am so blessed to be married to my wonderful husband and to have the whole month to visit my best friend. However, the visit is coming to a close next week and I shall miss her once she goes back up to teach in Illinois.We are fully moved into our apartment, just need to finish unpacking a few boxes that I can't get to at the moment.
Chris had a trechia biopsy and is doing so much better. I am totally amazed at the specialist that we went to have this done and he was just so sweet. We went on Friday and he got in and they let me go back with him until they sedated him, then I went to the waiting room. I had a book and expected to spend a couple of hours just reading untill they came for me. However, about 15 minutes after going back into the waiting room, a nurse came to tell me that they had started and that Chris was doing great. About 10 minutes later they took me into the operating room where they had him so that the Doctor could show me live what they saw down his trechia (wind pipe) and to explain things to me.. it was rather neat to be able to see inside my husbands throat and see what they were goign to do. I then went back to the waiting room while they lasered off some scar tissue to help open up his wind pipe more so he can get more air in and out.
It wasn't more then 20 minutes later that another nurse came to tell me that they were doing well and then a few more nurses came in to tell me that he was doing fine within a span of 40 minutes and finally one came to tell me that they finshed the biopsy and were sending the tissue down to get analyized and to let me know that they were about done with him and were going to let him wake up. I then waited another 10 or so minutes when another nurse came and took me back to where Chris was waking up. A nurse stayed to make sure he was alright before discharging him and she even gave us a free parking pass so that we can leave without having to pay anything. I thought that was very sweet of her.
The doctor had came and talked to us and was sooo wonderful telling us everything and giving us all the options. Which are really not that bad. If what he has done lasts for more then a couple of years then we will do this agian if the scar tissue reforms, if the scar tissue reforms within a few months then we will have to choose between a very invasive surgery or a non invasive surgery, but either way it would be a lengthly recovery and very painful for him.
Chris is doing great and they didn't find anything on the scar tissue to be of any concern.. it was just scar tissue and not something else that could possibly be of more concern. God is so good to us. I had been and continue to, pray for Chris and his breathing. I am so glad that they opened his airway from 4 millimeters to 12 millimeters and he is doing soo much better. Normally the airways are around 20 millimetters and if he was an olympic athelete then this wouldn't be enough for him but since he is not, this is something that the doctor feels can help him out tremindously.
God is great in his timing though. When we first got married we didn't have health insurance and a month after getting it I got pregnant (not planned by us) and he started having some breathing problems agian... so we went and got him looked at and this is the result. I am so glad that he is doing well. The doctor thinks that he had always had this scar tissue from when he was premie because of the tubes they stuck in him as a young babe. And this is something he always struggled with but only recently did it get worse and more noticable.
Anyways we are just praising God for the wonderful grace he has shown us in this situation. :D
~Joy and Chris and little Reyna (on the way)~
