Missoulaz28
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So shit happens and I understand that. but I'm kind of bummed.
On Saturday night the wife and I were sitting down to eat some dinner and I had a piece of elk steak that I decided to choke on.
So I go hack it up into the garbage, nothing major. The extreme chest pain that started immediately after was another story. Made the trip to the ER thinking I had a chunk of food in my lung. A couple x-rays and a CT later and they find a tare in my esophagus. The new hurry that the docs get lets me know that's not good. A couple hours later and I was on life flight to Seattle to be checked out by a Thoracic Surgeon. They check me out and set me up to be monitored, with constant vital checks to make sure an infection didn't start.
After 36 hours of living off an IV they decide I'm not going to need surgery but I don't get to eat anything. So they throw a feeding tube down my nose and hooked me up to a pump that gets to be my buddy for 20 hours a day.
The worst part about it is that the pain subsided reasonably soon, so I was laid up in a hospital for 3 days feeling perfectly fine, except for the tube stuck down my nose. I was able to come home on Wednesday, partly in thanks to my brother (randy11) flying my mom over to drive me home.
Plan is Feeding tube for a week, then a Liquid diet for anywhere from 1-4 weeks depending on how I'm doing. With a restricted diet after that.
Meaning that the ~month leading up to hunting season I'll be on the worlds crappiest diet for having energy. Plus the beauty of having thousands of dollars worth of bills coming in the next couple months has me kind of bummed out.
I'm ok with skipping most of the season, but the Missouri breaks rifle elk tag I have this year is something I don't want to miss out on. The only upside is that I am not limited on activity once I get the tube out.
Sorry for the venting, just sitting here bummed as can be thinking about what the next couple months are going to entail.
On Saturday night the wife and I were sitting down to eat some dinner and I had a piece of elk steak that I decided to choke on.
So I go hack it up into the garbage, nothing major. The extreme chest pain that started immediately after was another story. Made the trip to the ER thinking I had a chunk of food in my lung. A couple x-rays and a CT later and they find a tare in my esophagus. The new hurry that the docs get lets me know that's not good. A couple hours later and I was on life flight to Seattle to be checked out by a Thoracic Surgeon. They check me out and set me up to be monitored, with constant vital checks to make sure an infection didn't start. After 36 hours of living off an IV they decide I'm not going to need surgery
but I don't get to eat anything. So they throw a feeding tube down my nose and hooked me up to a pump that gets to be my buddy for 20 hours a day.The worst part about it is that the pain subsided reasonably soon, so I was laid up in a hospital for 3 days feeling perfectly fine, except for the tube stuck down my nose. I was able to come home on Wednesday, partly in thanks to my brother (randy11) flying my mom over to drive me home.
Plan is Feeding tube for a week, then a Liquid diet for anywhere from 1-4 weeks depending on how I'm doing. With a restricted diet after that.
Meaning that the ~month leading up to hunting season I'll be on the worlds crappiest diet for having energy. Plus the beauty of having thousands of dollars worth of bills coming in the next couple months has me kind of bummed out.
I'm ok with skipping most of the season, but the Missouri breaks rifle elk tag I have this year is something I don't want to miss out on. The only upside is that I am not limited on activity once I get the tube out.
Sorry for the venting, just sitting here bummed as can be thinking about what the next couple months are going to entail.
