Kyara's swallow study

This is her x-ray about 30 minutes after she swallowed the contrast. I was not able to take pictures during the actual procedure, but this is what it looked like after. When looking at it remember it is taken from the top with her lying on her back. So what is on the right side of the picture is really her left. It is like she is looking at us.

The bright white blob on the left side of her chest is her stomach. It is full of contrast and barium so that we can see it. What we were looking for was any of the bright white to go out of the space about 1-2 rib below her chin. In the last study, she had the bright white (contrast) leak out of her "esophagus" and pool to the right side of her chest. You can see in this xray, there is not any bright white to the right of her spine. This is GOOD! Also lower in her belly area you can see some more bright white (it is in the cloudy white area). This is contrast in her intestines. This means that her stomach is emptying fine. Everything looks great! I hope I explained it so that you can kinda tell what you are looking at. :)