Over the course of a mere two weeks Herbie had totally refueled – what a lush! About 430 ml drained today.
Dr. Young, the radiologist doing the procedure came by early on to chat. Turns out that Herbie’s consumption levels will require a multi-stage solution since injecting too much alcohol into that size cavity could cause poisoning. We’d like to avoid that.
I’m now wearing a very fashionable drain right at the beltline. We will be monitoring the fluids and about a week from now will begin the official “Quick Rust & Disintegrate” plan.
My left hip area is very sore after this procedure, but pain levels are tolerable and will be treated with regular Tylenol. Kim’s taking great care of me and the far-reaching support team has been tremendous – thanks to all of you who have phoned, written notes, texted, emailed, etc.!
More to follow about a week from now. More details below on the process for those who have interest.
Many thanks to each of you. It’s a Wonderful Life and you’re many of the reasons why… Thanks for all the kind notes over the past several weeks. I’ll hope to reply to them at some stage but right now the priority is for some R&R.
More to follow next week…
MORE DETAILS
Here’s my non-medical understanding of the next steps in the process:
- we will monitor the drain, keeping track of volume, color, etc.
- around a week from now we’ll go back in for Phase II b
- run contrast through Herbie to make sure he’s not sharing fluids with any area of my body we wouldn’t want alcohol going
- take those fluids out and determine the amount of alcohol to apply
- put alcohol through the drain to help sclerose the area (Quick Rust – harden really)
- repeat the rusting as need be so disintegration can occur