Chuck is feeling really bad. Poor thing. When he opens his eyes and sees me, he starts to cry. It breaks my heart to see him so miserable! What ya gonna do? Currently, he has a temp of 102....

I have been researching "fistula," which is Chuck's current issue. I've been reading everything I can on it, but still don't understand the whole issue (no pun intended). It's a tunnel created outside of the digestive tract...emptying contents where they have no sense being! I put a call in to the gastro doc this morning, but have not heard back from him yet. Since he has not been in to see Chuck today, I'm hoping he'll come while I'm here. My uneducated understanding is that Chuck is draining bile, food particles, etc into the cavity outside of his stomach and intestines. Now, as we all know, the food is supposed to travel from the stomach to the intestines...not from the stomach to some cavity...which later pours out of a "man-made-hole." I reckon this is kinda good as the man-made-hole leads to Chuck's small intestine...so something's getting to the intestine. It's just not staying in the intestine! Are you thoroughly confused? Hopefully the doctor can straighted all this out for me. In the meantime, Chuck is miserable. He's even having pain in his stomach...miraculous as he has very limited feeling below his upper chest.