Crazy Weekend!!!

Since some of you wanted the update, here is the story. It is a bit long but there are funny parts.
Part 1:
We have had one crazy weekend. My sister Lizz has been down visiting and we have tried to have a lot of fun with her while she was here. We did some shopping, went to the mall and the zoo, had pizza/Wii night at Paul's house, and had a BBQ at our house. In between all of the fun we played the Wii and slept. We were pretty tired after everything but very glad that she came. Lizz had never been to any zoo before and we had never been to the zoo in Boise. John had his first experience bowling and with help his score was way better than mine. We are very glad that Lizz came for the weekend.
Part 2:
At the very end of the busy weekend we had a BBQ at our house with my siblings and their families. Brad and I made some pork country style ribs and chicken. Everyone one else had brought some super yummy foods and we were all excited to eat it all. During Brad's first bite of the ribs he got a lodge. The piece of pork decided that it didn't want to be eaten and held on to Brad's esophagus and wouldn't let go. Brad tried everything he could think of, everything he read on the internet, and everthing his dad told him to do to dislodge the pork, to no avail. Brad was unable to even get water or saliva down. We had Jordan and another friend, named Ritch, come over and give Brad a blessing. By the time they came over the food had been lodged for over 6 hours and was showing no signs of moving. We decided to just try and get some sleep and maybe sleep would help Brad's esophagus relax. Yesterday morning we woke up and Brad went into the Student Health center to see if there was anything they could do there for him. Unfortunately the only option was to go into the hospital and have them take care of it. Brad had to be sedated while they pushed the pork through. They found out that Brad has what is called Esophagitis and Stricture and had to stretch his esophagus out. Apparently esophagitis is when stomach acid and digestive enzymes reflux into the esophagus causing the tissues to become inflamed and ulcerated. Stricture is when scaring develops by recurrent inflammation and the underlying tissues become fibrous and narrow. Thanks to this narrowing a large piece of food (pork ribs) can completely block the esophagus. The treatment is antacids to be used after eating and bedtime and dilation of the esophagus every few years. So that is the long and short of it.
Brad nor I have ever been sedated in the hospital before. When Brad woke up from the procedure he was being so funny. I wish that I had brought the video camera so I could have solid evidence on his recovery. He would wake up and ask me a series of questions or make statements and then fall back to sleep. He would wake up again and ask me the same questions. This repeated every 5 minutes for the next hour and a half. I was laughing so hard every time he woke up. After a while I just told him that I would answer all of his questions when he woke up from his drug induced sleep. One of the statements he would make was to tell me that he put the camera in my purse and that I should take pictures of him. I took a couple but he looked like this for most of the time we were in the recovery room so I didn't retake the same pose. In the recovery room Brad woke up and told me that he just had a dream about washing his hands and then fell right back to sleep. At one point he tried to intertwine his fingers and it took him a little while to get his fingers together. Unfortunately he didn't get it quite right. I just had to get a picture of that. On the car ride home he looked at his shirt and asked me how he got his shirt on. I reminded him that he put it on before we left the hospital. He always looked surprised every time he woke up to see that the procedure was over, that we were in the recovery room (Man, I don't even remember falling asleep. How long did it take? Did you already talk to the Doctor? How did I get this water?), the car (Did I walk to the car? No, you were wheeled out to the car.), back home (Did Lizz leave already?), in his bed (Did I take my clothes off? Yes Brad, right before you crawled into bed). When he finally woke up a few hours later I had to repeat the answers to all of his questions again. All of those questions he repeated at least 8 times. It was quite a funny day. Since Brad has to get this done every few years, I will definitely be bringing the video camera to the next one. We have some pictures of the procedure but I didn't want to put them up (Brad did) because they are gross.

Brad is fully recovered and happy to be able to eat food again. He went almost 2 days without it. Hope you are all doing well.