Edward Medical Situation

We have been undergoing a consuming and distracting Edward Medical Situation (Crohn’s-related) this past week, and things are finally improving: procedure done, fever gone, color restored, eating and drinking normally. Edward is scheduled to have intestinal surgery (normal for Crohn’s patients, but this is his first so I’m pretty nervous) in August. Because of this recent episode, his doctors are trying to get that surgery moved earlier, but there is not much hope of that: even the August date was lucky, considering they originally said breezily they could do it in May so he could have the summer to recover, and then the actual first available date was two weeks before he goes back to college; if anything goes wrong with THAT date, we have to wait for winter break. In the meantime, Edward’s doctors are determined to build a nutritional buffer: the surgical recovery will be depleting, and Edward already has trouble with medication compliance and with forcing himself to eat more than he…