A week or so after the stent was fitted things started to settle down for my husband. he found himself able to drink the super-calorific milkshakes with relative ease and managed a bowl of soup at the same time and speed as me. it felt like happier days were on their way.
Three days later it all went belly up. The acid from the stomach now has a clear passage way to erupt into and the fast tabs hubs was on were creating mucous and making him sick. The pain he has been in has been unbearable to see. Oramorph just disguises the pain and doesn't help find the cause. We thought the pain was due to the stent but it is more likely due to the acid reflux. Medication has been changed to something disolvable but after 6 days in bed its not looking like there is much improvement.
He is unable to keep much down at all, looks weak and poorly for the first time properly this year. The smell that comes when he is sick is beyond description. It's not the normal 'sicky'smell. He was such a strong man and I have never known him take to his bed for such a length of time before.
Poor poor him. I don't know how to help him for the best.
