Slight change of plans.

There has been a slight change of plans. This morning, we learned that two out of four cultures drawn from Joe's PICC line yesterday were positive for gram-positive cocci. Joe was getting that line pulled today anyway, so that part was okay. Joe was sent down to Interventional Radiology and got his fancy new triple lumen. The folks in IR took really good care of Joe. How could they not, right? As far as the chemo, that is being put on hold until Saturday so that everyone can be sure that there is no more bacteria.

That is the super quick summary. If you know anything about hospitals...particularly teaching hospitals, you know that the day didn't go that smoothly. But I figured I'd be nice and spare everyone the boring details! The important thing is that IR rocks. :)

To be honest, last night when we learned that Joe would be getting induction chemo today, it seemed sudden - and yet we felt a sense of relief. After all, these past few months we've been doing so much waiting and seeing. We knew that the induction chemo was coming sooner or later. It was almost like a burden was lifted to know that something was finally happening. I think we're all at least a little nervous - mostly because of Joe's lungs - but we do feel that the right decision has been made for right now.

Now it seems we have to do just a little bit more waiting. Just when we were all geared up and prepared. Just a little bit though.

p.s. miraculously, i've discovered that we can view all blogger blogs again. i don't know if this is temporary or permanent. but while we can, we'll play some catch up. :)

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Thank you A.M. & A.D. and my Mommy for the cards!

And I totally forgot the other day. Thank you, thank you, thank you to Alice, Crystal, Jomei, Lei, & Sha for stopping by and bringing us all the yummy goodies. It was great to see your smiling faces, and great to enjoy the yummy goodies!