Biopsy Results

Some unpleasant news to report from the Valley of The Sun.

Mighty Mo, the three year old boy wonder and uber-cute kid has the results of last weeks biopsy. Colitis. Mistress is distraught to say the least. She watched a special friends spiral into the abyss with his colitis, which eventually led to a permanent colostomy bag. But that was not the worst of it. It was the depression and I guess the failure to overcome the enormity of the condition that took a bright happy young man and turned him into a crushed shell who pushed everyone away, got himself fired from his job then committed mental and emotional suicide on his future. No he did not commit physical suicide, though the wall's of anger he projected were the subjective equivalent.

I suppose I am still in research mode and not exactly feeling as dismayed as she, though rightly concerned. The doctor assures us that this is not yet an advanced condition like uleractive colitis or Crohns and the medicine should give us a good diagnosis on future tracks of combativeness. He needs to go through about four months of 3 times a day medicine before the first check up.

The biopsy also fit several pieces of many puzzling facts together about his lifelong battle with rapid immune system failure. Colitis is a sub-category of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), not to be confused with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). The doctors were able to link the biopsy findings with many of his other conditions since birth with a symptom of IBD called over-reactive immune system.

This means that when a normal viral or bacterial infection runs its course through the body, the immune systems hyper reacts and attacks not only the infection but once the infection is defeated continues to attack tissues of the digestive tract. This explains the rapid deteoration from common cold to pneumonia and dehydration in 24 hours. Its explains the constipation, rectal bleeding, vomiting during bowel movements and a whole host of other things that in the past have all be considered seperate from the low immune system.

Mistress is putting up a brave front but I know this woman too well. And though she has not yet said it, she feels responsible for this since colitis is a genetic condition from her side of the family. It's not fair for her to put this kind of pressure on herself and the best I can do is comfort her any way I can over the next few days. I already scheduled a massage for her tomorrow after work. I will work through this by educating myself on the disease and looking for alternate avenues other than just medicine, such as diet changes and probiotics.

Unbelievably this has taken me two hours to write. I have been researching and reaching out to others for advice and now suddenly need to just break this off and get on with the day. My run has been cancelled for today and considering blowing off my alternate workout on the trainer tonight so that I can be attentive to Mistress.

I would appreciate your comments. As I have done with past updates on Mo's conditions, I will print them out and give them to Mistress so she can see the expressions of love, concern and prayer are going on out there in the world. If any of you have experience with colitis in your family I would appreciate some feedback.

Thanks.