No Real Answers Today

Rebekah had her Endoscopy today and it came out clear. She has nice pink tissue. That is good news, but doesn't answer the question about why she is having trouble swallowing and continues to have the coughing issues. The next step seems to be to involve an Ear/Nose/Throat doctor as well as a Speech Therapist to work with her on eating. We are concerned that encouraging eating might make matters worse. Uugh!

We still expect to go home this evening. Rebekah needs an antibiotic before she goes that will take two hours to run. We don't really want to hit rush hour traffic anyway, so we are not pushing too hard to get it started.

Once again, Rebekah woke up early (6:30 or so) and wouldn't go back to sleep. Mommy put on some cartoons for Rebekah and dozed a little. She has been a crabby girl most of the day. Not much different from the last couple of days. I think she is really starting to show the "not happy to be in the hospital" attitude. She has moments of being fine and then all of a sudden she is crabby and screaming.

The Versed that she was given for the Endoscopy didn't help with the attitude, either. And she took quite a bit of the Versed and Fentanyl to put her into lala land for the procedure. She seems to have built up quite a tolerance.

Very early this morning (just after midnight), she had another vomiting episode. She got it everywhere - her bed, the floor, Nurse Megan, Mommy, etc... It took quite a bit of clean up. Not really a good way to start then night. I suspect that it is from the chemo. We seem to be seeing more and more of it while we are in the hospital. A fact of life, I guess.