DJ's day at PCMC

Today was DJ's second treatment, and he is reacting much better to it all than he did last time. The medications still left him a little funky, but he isn't as sick as he was before. They were not able to stretch his esophagus any larger because the scar tissue is constricting more rapidly than they had originally thought, so they stretched it to the size of a pencil, which is how much they had stretched it before. Dr. Black said that the lining is intact, but that it is very ragged and strictured and that hopefully with more treatments they will be able to smooth it out so that he will be able to eat normally again. His next treatment will be on March 13, and we will continue treatments every two to three weeks after that. Dr. Black was unable to give us a definite time frame for the treatments to be over with since DJ's scar tissue is not being very cooperative. It was a better day than expected though, and we thank all of you who had us in your prayers.