Thanksgiving

After meeting with Dr. Berkman on the Monday before Thanksgiving, we tried to remain positive. When we met with Dr. Berkman, my goal was to walk out of his office with an endoscopy and colonoscopy scheduled. It made sense that this was the next step--keep looking til you found the root cause of the problem. So at least we were moving forward. Can't believe Ed's primary care physician didn't schedule this--but we won't go there.

Dan was coming home Wednesday morning for Thanksgiving and we decided not to say anything to him about this unless he asked. First, because we didn't know what "this" was and second because he had just two weeks left of school which would be intense for him with his final studio project and finals--so why worry him when we didn't know yet what we were worrying about.

We were also prepared for possible questions from the family on Thanksgiving as well since they hadn't seen Ed since Halloween. My mother made a comment in August about Ed losing weight--would she say something again? If so, we would be honest--that we were seeing doctors and trying to figure it out. Thankfully, though, no one asked any questions and we went through the day and weekend as though nothing was wrong. It was a tiring weekend for Ed because one of his symptoms also was that he had no energy at all and had been spending a lot of time resting and taking naps. But he tried to mask this on Thanksgiving and throughout the weekend while Dan was home. He was pretty tired by the end of the weekend!

Dan left Sunday morning to go back to school. On Tuesday morning, I flew to Tallahassee, Florida on business. I would return late Wednesday evening just in time for Ed's endoscopy and colonoscopy on Thursday morning.