Ulcers

They performed an endoscopy and found that Heather has three small ulcers at the top of her stomach. These may be the result of the NG tube irritating the wall of her stomach and/or her prolonged sickness. Either way, this is good news in that it helps to explain some of the blood loss/low hematocrit and is not particularly serious (compared to the many possibilities that could be far more troubling). They said that the ulcers seemed to be healing already, but that they will give her medication to help even more. They also took her NG tube out and won't be putting it back in. Hooray! One more tube out. We haven't heard any word on removal of the ventilation tube.