I just wanted to fill in every one....sorry I haven't been on here lately. I am trying to keep up with every ones posts.

This week my son was in the ER twice and had two surgeries, a course of IV antibiotics and we are still struggling with some kind of infection that seems to be a real tough one. The docs are vacillating between a dental and a soft tissue issue. He is miserable, and I am getting tired of the ER...every day last week it was either the ER or, dentist or ENT. His face was twice the size of normal. He never complains, but he called me one day to get him to the ER as soon as I possibly could. I was shocked when I got to his place and saw what he looked like! We still don't have an idea of exactly where this infection got started as all these docs seem to disagree. I have a hunch his antibiotics will be changed on Monday.

Anyway, I do have esophagitis, and after being told candida was visualized...it came back negative...go figure? What exactly was it he saw other than lesions due to esophagitis? I do have a fungal fingernail which came on really fast. My finger hurts though, and it was my impression that fungal fingernails are not painful. I have a sinus infection which I deferred treatment on while biopsies were pending. I will get that treated now, and also get concurrent yeast treatment of some type, preferrably the least toxic. I was also told my duodenal biopsy was negative for Celiac. No cancers, which I wasn't really thinking was a possibility.

So I was told to take Prilosec for the esophagitis, but I have tried that over the months that this has bothered me and I am unimpressed with proton pump inhibitors....I calmed it down a lot over the last few weeks with tons of yogurt, so I am going to stick with that and probiotics. I prefer that. The tennis ball feeling is down to a marble feeling and I can swallow again and it no longer feels like a cardiac arrest. This has happened off an on for several years, but never this bad, and I am not AS infested as I was thinking. Which is good thing.

I assume this is more autonomic neuropathy, the same stuttering and stopping of the process until it finally peters out for good, as it has in other places in my body. Not particulary comforting, but, at least it isn't a deviation from what the docs were thinking, hereditary. At least we are on the same course as we were. I do plan on pursuing the testing from Athena as well, if I can get it ordered.

Anyway, I am OK if you don't hear from me....and I am trying to keep up with all the posts.

Oh and the doggie on the ice....he is fine...he was basking in the warm sun today when we drove by. Winter gave way to a spring day and we hit 60, so the doggie was in 7th heaven...here on earth. We were happy to see him.

Hang in there every one.... I have read your posts and see that many of you are going thru some very difficult times. My thoughts are with you, all of you.