Colonoscopy

Travis began taking another round of Vancocin at a higher dose.  He began to improve and got excited to get back to work!  Then the night of the March 22nd Travis began to get worse again.  The pain was getting worse and so was his bathroom trips.  He called the doctor on the 23rd and they decided to schedule him for a colonoscopy for the next morning at 6:45 am.  He had a rough time with the awful drink they gave him; he drank it until he just kept throwing it up. Trav woke up a few times during the colonoscopy and that was pretty horrible, he says he woke up saying "ouch" and they said "just a minute Travis" and he went back out. They said he does not have Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis. There was no swelling. It’s obvious he has had C.Dificile, but his last test came back negative, so they were running another test. They took some biopsies. There was also a polyp, which they biopsied. It was bleeding and so they believe that may be what is causing some of his blood, possibly irritated by the C. Dificile. They also took his blood again to run some more tests. We should have results by Friday. His doctor did not remove the polyp because he wanted the biopsies run first. He said he may be able to remove through another colonoscopy, but most likely will have a surgeon remove it to make sure we get it deep enough.


There is still a strong possibility that he currently has C. difficile and so we are continuing with Vancocin. He was also slightly dehydrated and so we need to make sure he drinks enough so he won’t need to be hospitalized with an IV, the doctor told me this like 5 times in the ten minutes we talked!