As of noon today the Doctors have determined that the c-diff is the one and only infection that has been making Daddy so sick. None of his other cultures have come back positive for anything else. Hopefully Daddy doesn't have a strain that is resistant to the only two antibiotics that can cure it.
Daddy's fever is down, not completely gone but down. His kidney function is back to normal, well normal for Daddy. The best change right now is that the delirium is gone and mentally he seems to be back to normal.
He did great with his first chemo treatment yesterday and he will have one a week for the next month or so. The treatment didn't make him sick and we haven't seen any side effects from the drug yet. Hopefully he will be lucky and won't experience any problems. He is also continuing his radiation treatments, which he said today is making the side of his face very sore and it's really hurting. He has been started on a pain patch as well as other pain medication.
Daddy's coumadin level is now under 2 and the Gastroenterologists said that he will put the feeding tube in on Thursday or Friday depending on how Daddy is doing. One major concern with stopping the coumadin is Daddy getting more blood clots. Dr. Chen said today that Daddy really has to get moving to help prevent anymore clots from developing. We told him the only problem with that is the internal medicine Docs. won't let Daddy even get up. To which Dr. Chen replied "you guys aren't shy, I'm sure you can get your point across". Dr. Chen has been watching Daddy's progress and he comes in and talks to us, but he can't write any orders etc. because he's not an admitting Doctor at this point. We are just grateful for everything he's done and for everything he continues to do. I have never heard of a Doctor so devoted to his patients.
For the most part Daddy is doing okay. All we can do is pray that the antibiotics will be strong enough to get rid of the c-diff and the feeding tube surgery is problem free. Well ... and the chemo and radiation destroys any remaining cancer cells with little to no further complication.
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