Today was probably the worst day we've had so far. Matthew wasn't allowed to eat or drink anything all day because of his biopsy, and they didn't give him any pain meds because they didn't want to interfere with anything the anesthesiologist was going to do. The only thing he did all day was close his eyes, clench in pain and groan. It was heart breaking to watch which made for an extremely emotional day. After being pushed back over an hour, the nurses finally took him down to wait outside of the operating room. They let my mom, my aunt Julie, Joanna Layton and I walk him down and stay with him until he went in. The biopsy only took about 20 minutes, and recovery about 15 minutes. The doctors went in microscopically, and got 6 samples of his tumor through the one incision that they made. The cut was so small you can barely see it, and only needed glue to close it up.
After the procedure, he wasn't in as much pain, but I think as the grogginess of the anesthesia wore off it slowly returned because he was back to clenching and moaning. One thing that was kind of funny though is after we got him back into his room and he was allowed to eat and drink, all he wanted was water. He drank so much, but the way he asked for it was the funny part. Instead of using his words, he would either open his mouth and grunt, or just leave his mouth open until someone noticed what he wanted. He was like a caveman in the way he communicated to us. The nurses all thought he was funny too. As the day went on, his pain continued and we kept trying to get constant morphine for him, but that has to get approved from like whole line of doctors. Finally, around 9PM he got a morphine drip approved that would deliver the drug to his body every 10 minutes if he wanted it. He had a button he could push that released it into his system, and after 10:00 his pain had somewhat stabilized.
This is a picture of the small cut from the biopsy on his upper, middle chest right below his chin:
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