Sam was certainly less scared going into his second scope. It's official... He has EoE. I don't know why the specialists don't know if EoE gets better if you do allergy shots, but we're going to try it. They said that his is the worst case they've ever seen and they're the pediatric specialists. They managed to stretch his throat a little, not as much as they'd hoped, but Sam says it is easier to eat. He has to go in fasting. They had put him very first so that he wouldn't have to fast during the day, but I got him up to get ready and he forgot and had a bite of a cookie that was sitting on the table. He swallowed, panicked and came to talk to me. I couldn't find the phone number anywhere, so I just took Seth to my Mom's house (thank you marvelous woman) and took Sam down to the Hospital. They did push him back 6 hours, so I was so glad that my Mom had Seth. He was being snarky with each of the nurses and I eventually told him to knock it off. He was nicer to all of them after that. After he woke up from the anesthesia and they were bringing him back into the room where I was waiting, he heard the doctor talking to someone down the hall and in his half awake state started yelling, "Hi Dr,____!" until the doctor answered, "Hi Sam!" His oxygen monitor kept slipping and the monitor would start beeping. He kept telling me that I had to come turn it off and I kept telling to keep breathing. He was fixated on the IV coming out too. The minute he was brought into the room he was asking the nurse to take it out. She told him that it would be about 30 minutes, so he looked at the clock at said, "It's 2:18.... so it will be at...."
The day after, he was back at school, but I told him to stick to soft and cold foods. I choose to get him a slushy and surprise him at lunch. We got there and he hated the flavor, so Ada drank it instead. Seth and I sat there long enough to have lunch with Ada, Sam and Evelyn before Seth started his classes. That was fun.
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