Sunday October 4, 2009

Daddy's condition has improved significantly since yesterday. He has been getting a large volume of fluids in the attempts to get his body rehydrated. According to the Internal Medicine Doctors Daddy has a bladder infection that transferred to the blood stream (which isn't that what Septic means?). He thinks this is what caused the high temperature too. He doesn't think it's the c-diff because his white count is actually very low, but according to Dr. Chen a low white count can also show infection and he believes that it's the c-diff too. We are still waiting for the culture to come back. Daddy's coumadin level was 4.9 and it should be between 2 - 3. They are stopping the coumadin for a while so his levels will come back down. Once his level is 1.5 or lower then the Gastroenterolog Doctor will do surgery to place a feeding tube in Daddy's stomach. Which of course comes with a whole list of possible complications and problems. Daddy is still confused at times and has started hallucinating a bit. One minute he knows where he is and will ask the nurse questions etc. the next he's talking about seeing one of his sisters off because he says she's going on a trip. The Doctors say that it could just be because his body was so dehydrated and that it will take a couple days for him to get back to normal. I sure hope they're right!