The Poopsmith

I never thought that I'd actually blog about this, but it's good news--Rowdy pooped this evening! Yay!

He started the Remicade infusion, which is really the only change in the past five days (except for the TPN, but that wouldn't wake his bowel up or diminish the inflammation). So I'm giving Remicade the credit. It's the first Crohn's medication that he hasn't had a horrible reaction to.

The plan for Rowdy changes day to day. This morning's plan was that he'd stay in the hospital another week, maybe two, continuing on TPN. Then he would be discharged to home, but continuing TPN there. Concurrently, he'd get his first three doses of Remicade, which takes six weeks. After that, if things weren't really resolving, he'd go to surgery.

We're not out of the woods yet. I'm sure that Rowd will still go slowly on his oral intake and stay on the TPN for awhile longer. Tomorrow, the plan may change slightly. We'll see. He will have to take things slowly so he won't have a setback.

Thanks everyone for your good wishes, prayers and kind thoughts. I have a real testimony of the power of prayer.