Henri's Blog

Henri had a colonoscopy yesterday, and they placed a bowel stent. Actually, it wasn't much of a colonoscopy, since his blockage is very near the end of the colon, and the camera wouldn't fit through it. The stent immediately expanded on either side of the blockage and will take a couple of days to fully expand in the middle. So, within a couple of days he should be able to start working through his backlog. Henri thinks he has been really feeling the blockage for at least a few weeks, although he thinks it has been there and causing problems for longer than that.

The procedure went smoothly, and although they had planned to keep him overnight in the hospital, he ended up coming home last night.

So, short term he will of course lose some weight, although only from his belly, which has been pretty distended. As long as no other blockages show up, he should be able to get down to eating lots of good, fatty foods, and pack some weight back on. He needs to gain weight in order to tolerate serious chemo. In the meantime he will be starting a new chemo regimen, with a new drug, soon.

-jill