About Joe's hospital stay.

Joe's hospital stay has been a lot of ups and downs and rehashing the same old debate over his lungs. Our biggest prayer right now is that Joe's lungs miraculously clear up, because they continue to create mass confusion amongst the doctors. Nobody really knows what it going on in there. The debate continues. Is it a fungal infection? Is it a type of pneumonia? Is it disease related? Over the weekend, Joe's breathing started to get worse. Just standing would cause shortness of breath. Joe started getting oxygen again for sleeping. Then yesterday he started using it a bit more during the day. A dose of Lasix last night (for fluid overload) made Joe's breathing feel better...but his oxygen levels remained low.

This morning Joe felt completely miserable. He woke up with a fever, which ended up going up to 103.3. Breathing was difficult, so Joe's oxygen was bumped up a bit. And this nagging cough that Joe has had seemed to be even worse. Needless to say, we were all pretty anxious this morning. Each doctor that came in pretty much said, "yeah, you look & sound worse. We have no idea what it is. We're hesitant to biopsy...but it still might need to happen." Joe's meds have been shuffled a bit, and Joe was given another dose of Lasix.

As of right now, it seems that Joe's setback this weekend may just be from a fluid overload. Because this afternoon Joe looks and feels so much better. He looks like a different person from the dude I saw this morning! We just keep praying for healing in his lungs. A chest x-ray was taken this morning. So far we just know it showed some excess fluid.

Joe finished his last dose of decitabine this morning. Despite all that I've just mentioned, Joe was able to tolerate the chemo quite well. There were a couple instances of mild nausea, and that's about it. Now we sit and wait for at least a week to see how things are going. Joe's doctors would love to start Joe on heavy dose chemo to get him into remission (the decitabine is mostly to keep things under control) - but they keep hesitating because of the whole lung issue.

As far as the CMV. The past few results have been...postive...negative...postive...negative. That CMV is just teasing us now. I don't like it.

Let's pray for Joe's lungs!!!!!! :)
Thanks everybody for caring so much. We can be quite silly & dorky. But when you're facing something so serious, silly & dorky is the way to be.
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Happy wedding day to Melanie & Scott. Yay for 777!
Happy birthday to Lauren. Glad I was able to talk to you. :)
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Thank you Nancy for serenading me!
Hey there Lilly P.!!!!! Thanks for letting me bother you all the time, listening to me whine and grump and vent, and sharing juicy stories! :)