he's home

So RO is back home, sitting on the couch, reading the New Yorker, exhorting my mom to read about the perfidy of Rudy Giuliani. (She won't: he so disgusts her that why should she waste her time reading about such an awful man?)

On the good side (and it all good), he feels good and it all seems to be dwindling into a relatively minor health event. On the--confusing--side, we're really not quite sure what actually happened. It mostly seems to be a GI event with the heart problem as a sideshow. (Apparently to get a good heart attack diagnosis you need two of the following three: chest pain, elevated blood enzymes, and an irregular EKG. He didn't have chest pain, the enzymes were elevated but only a teeny amount, and we don't know about the EKG. So we don't know exactly what went on w/ the heart.) 

The endoscopy showed that there was NO ulcer, just a mildly irritated stomach and some esophageal irritation.  So we're committed to figuring it out so he can proceed confidently w/ the right medication (if any).  But for the time being it we're just glad he's home and feeling well and able to eat. 

That ends the saga--anybody who wants to monitor progress, feel free to contact me by phone or email--but I'll end the blog tonight since all seems well.

N