Tuesday, March 17, 2009

DAY 80: Still fever free....still a prisoner in the hospital.

This is Candace.
Quick update:
Fever still down.
They pulled some cerebral spinal fluid today to check for bacteria there - Should have results tomorrow.

Still having problems with:
1)headache and dizziness
2)bad cough
3)counts are not recovering (although whites came up from <0.3 to 0.5)

Even if he doesn't have fever, they will not release us until his counts go up.

He is VERY weak but feeling better than the past 4 days.

His oncologist came in today and said "You were VERY sick, you were VERY sick" (His emphasis on VERY).
Thank God we are in a safer place regarding the infection. Not "out of the woods" but headed that way.

Stuart had some fluid on his lungs this morning. They gave us a breathing machine to work his lungs and they seem to be better.

Tomorrow will be Day 6 of this hospital visit. Yuck. (but thank God for good doctors)

Will update soon. Keep praying.
Goodnight

2 comments:

Rick C said...

Hi Candace. Thanks for taking the time amidst all of this to give us an update. Stuart has many friends who keep sending prayers his way and please keep the faith that things will gradually improve for Stu. He really is a trooper, a real inspiration to many of us!

Rick

Martha said...

VERY sick! We all could tell that was the case. We keep learning more lessons from you and Stuart and you keep leading us down your pathway to Christ. We are blessed to know you.