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Dh and i got up at 6am this morning and played around with our computers. Highly unusual for me I often sleep to noon with my work schedule. About 8 am he sd he was constipated and sd his stools (what he could pass)were still black. This time I looked at them,black as licorice. . He wanted a laxative. I refused to give him one till I talked to the GI lab or his dr. Called gi they sd call stomach specialist. Finally after an hr i got a hold of them and told them the problem. They talked to dr and asked how far away I was from hosp, I told them where i lived, they asked how soon i could get to hosp i sd as soon as i changed clothes. They sd get there as soon as possible. I told dh. Would you believe we got into a shouting match because he refused to go? He finally sd "FINE!" Got there and he was very pale.
After doing tests they sd he had lost a little over 1/2 of his blood in his body. The dr actually told him he owed me his life because he had not got there when he did we would have lost him. I am still shaking as I type this. They did another scope, still found no bleeding but they cauterized the ulcer edges. They think the ulcer is opening and closing. It is very large and is 1 1/2 inches deep. He is in icu tonight with 2 surgeons keeping watch over him and a reg dr. They sd the ulcer is actually setting on veins and vessels (?) and it could cut them in to. If so if not caught very very fast I will lose him.
So it may mean surgery. He will be in hosp at least till monday. He is getting 4 units of blood. They actually had to give him one before the scope as they did not know if he would make it without it. I am sitting by my phone. Please pray for us.