MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2014

Tonight during dinner my son, David, got a piece of meat stuck in his esophagus where he had his surgery as a baby.  He was born with a tracheoesophageal fistula with esophageal atresia.  All those fancy long words simply mean his esophagus was not fully formed but ended in a pouch mid-chest, while the rest of the esophagus grew up from the stomach and attached itself to his trachea.  Every once in a while food gets stuck there because there's none of the normal peristalsing muscle to help move food along and scar tissue can build up and cause narrowing.

So we spent the evening in the ER, got home around 12:30 am.  Biopsies have confirmed he has Eosinophilic Esophagitis.  It can be abbreviated as EE or EoE.  We'll have to have him allergy tested to see if we can identify specific triggers, but for now we were told certain foods and medications cause narrowing of the esophagus.  I had no idea.  I always assumed his problems were caused from his surgery.

David and I have always had major medical conditions happening close to the same time.  He was born by C-section with his birth defect, and 8 months later I found out I had a tumor in my lungs which nearly made me drown in my own blood.  Then a couple years ago I needed wrist surgery, and a week later we found out David had a pilonidal cyst which required surgery.  Then in September I was diagnosed with cancer and now David has this EE.