June 25

Steve took a trip to interventional radiology today to fix "the leak" that keeps draining into the remaining external drainage bag. It turns out that they will schedule a second endoscopic procedure tomorrow to insert a larger stent to deal with the drainage. In preparation for Steve's homecoming, I learned how to dress his incision and got preliminary training in setting up tube feedings. Steve spends a lot more time out of bed and takes longer and farther walks every day. He was hungry for lunch today, but at the very last minute (I really mean that - he had just put the salad dressing on his salad) - he was ordered not to eat because they would be taking him to interventional radiology - so he had to skip the lunch he was looking forward to.