I haven't blogged in a few days now - been at the hospital with my Sweetie. Last Monday he was in so much pain that I loaded him up and took him to the ER. After a Colonoscopy, CT Scan, Barium Enema and Sonogram, the Surgeon decided that he really need to have a Colostomy. They did that Wednesday afternoon. He handled the surgery wonderfully. Instead of the hour and a half they had told me it would take, it only took 45 minutes. The doctor said it was a Textbook Surgery and he was so pleased with the way things went. He said Hans' colon was 8 times larger than it should have been. He said it probably would have ruptured or at least begun to leak into the abdominal cavity really soon. I am glad we went ahead with the surgery. He has not been eating and that bothers me. I finally got him to eat a cookie and drink 1/2 of a milk shake today. He does not drink near enough but I don't know how to get him to drink more. I have taken everything I can think of to the hospital and he just shakes his head.

Hopefully he will get to come home by Wednesday and we can get started learning how to take care of this new thingie. It looks easy enough but I can just see me spilling the whole thing and having such a mess to clean up and embarrassing Hans half to death. He is sensitive about that. When he was messing up his diapers and pads to bad, he would just shake his head and say "Oh, No". I want to be really good at taking care of him.

Well, I am exhausted tonight and need some sleep. Maybe the dog and cat won't fight tonight and we can all sleep all night.