An Update on Devan

Well, we are still here in hospital...it is day 4 (I think. It's hard to keep track of the days here.) Here is a quick breakdown as to what exactly is going on with him. His crohns is located within 5 inches of his intestines...I think it is in the small intestine right after his colon. As most of you know we have been battling a "flare up" of his crohns for about 4 months now. We have tried numerous drugs...everything from steroid based prescriptions to drinking coconut milk. Nothing appears to be working. This past weekend he started to go back down hill and not even his Lortab could keep the pain away. Monday night at 11:00 we were admitted into the emergency room at Alta View hospital. That was a horribly long night filled with Morphine, x-rays, vomiting and nose tubes. Once the imaging results came back we knew that his intestines had actually closed themselves off. This could happen for 2 reasons.
1.) The infected was so inflamed and swollen that it closed right up. or...
2.) After years of flare ups and generally pissing off his intestines, his crohns had built up so much scar tissue that it closed itself off.
This is how doctors go about fixing this issue: They shove a tube up Devan's nose that goes down in to his stomach. This alleviates the pressure by removing gases and fluids trapped that can not get out because of the blockage. Then, through an IV, they start pumping him with steroid drugs, antibiotics and antifugus medicines. Then they watch you for a couple of days. The the blockage starts to go away we know that is was just swollen and the medicine has done its job. If it hasn't, which is where we find ourselves right now, you know that it is probably scar tissue and surgery is necessary.
So here we are...day 4...and the x-rays show that his blockage is actually getting worse, the tube is sucking even more stuff out of his stomach...and he is generally getting sick and tired of having a tube in the back of his throat causing him to dry heave a lot. The surgeon, Dr. Hashimoto, came in today and we all decided to go for the surgery. We also decided to have it done on Friday versus having to wait until Tuesday because of the long holiday weekend. We are not sure when exactly it will be but it will definitely happen tomorrow.
We appreciate all the calls and general concern from all of our family and friends. I love knowing that if I ever needed something there is small army behind willing to do whatever they could. Right now the best thing is just get some company. It gets a tad boring just sitting here and it is nice to visit with people. That being said, we are still at Alta View hospital in Sandy room 2141. This is where we will remain until either Sunday or Monday.
I hope I wrote down enough of what was going on to give you all an idea as to what we are going through. Devan let me take a picture of him...he looks so sad. I feel bad that he has to go through this.
Thanks again for all of the love and support!
PS: The guy in the bed next to Devan is possibly the loudest snorer I have ever heard...even louder than my dad...and that is impressive :)

I am attaching a couple of pics...These are all the drugs Devan has recently been on to try and get this all cleared up.