Thursday

Neal is getting a test done this morning. I am unsure how long it will take. I am going to try to leave work a little early and watch some movies with him. He is ready to go home and bored, but I am unsure he will be getting out anytime soon.

I spoke with Neal....
He had a gastric emptying study. Here is a blurb from medicinenet.com

For a gastric emptying study, a patient eats a meal in which a solid component of the meal (for example, scrambled egg), a liquid component of the meal (for example, water), or both, are mixed with a small amount of radioactive material. A scanner (acting like a Geiger counter) is placed over the patient’s stomach to monitor the amount of radioactivity in the stomach for several hours after the test meal is eaten. As the radioactively-labelled food empties from the stomach, the amount of radioactivity in the stomach decreases. The rate at which the radioactivity leaves the stomach reflects the rate at which food is emptying from the stomach.

He had to eat radioactive oatmeal. Nothing like a balanced radioactive oatmeal breakfast. This sounds a lot like Matt's new diet. Neal is back in his room and fine now, but is still saying no visitors. I will let you know if anything changes.