The Journey Continues: Still at the Hospital

Just a quick update to let you know what the doctors said this morning.

There have been three doctors come by today but the main one came by about 10:30am.  She told Richard that they were going to be more aggressive with his treatment.  He is going to be started on medicines all through the IV instead of by mouth.  She is not sure how much of the medicines have been staying in his system and how much has been expelled.  He will be in the hospital at least three to four more days and the possiblity of  more depending on how fast he responds to the IV meds.  She said that any of the three things, graft/vs/host, c diff, and cmv,  by themselves are hard enough to deal with but putting them all three together makes a tougher situation.  Her associate came back later to talk with Richard and told him that had he been at home during this process he would have not survived.

Today Richard has been very dizzy, almost passed out twice but his appetite has seemed to pick up some.  He is not eating much but he is starting to crave food.  He had me go get him fettuchine for lunch and he did eat a good portion of it.  His blood pressure is still very low and they have upped the fluids going in.  He is on his second bag going in.  They are doing these bags at a faster pace.  They will do one more and then the fourth one will be a slow one.

Richard was not very happy when he first heard the news but once he had time to ponder on it for a while he knows that he is right where he should be. If he is better in three to four days he will go home but home health will come twice a day to do the IV meds.  They also mentioned that they might teach me to do that.  Right now is sleeping and watching football and watching football and sleeping.  :)

Keep praying!!! Richard is getting very tired and discouraged.  I think he is feeling a bit like Job.