Well it's been an interesting week. We brought Daddy in last Monday afternoon because they said his potassium level were dangerously high. Although by Monday night they were down considerable and by Tuesday morning were almost completely normal. The Doctor said he wanted to keep him a few days to work on getting his medications straightened out and to try and get his pain under control. They have stopped quite a few of the medications that he was put on after the first hospital discharge and even stopped or lowered several of his other medications that he's been on for years. They tried the Lyrica, but stopped it after one day and upped his Fentanyl patch. His morphine dosage was lowered but they also added 2mg of IV morphine when he needs it. That's about it for the medication changes.
Early Saturday morning (3:45 a.m.) he started running a temperature of 101.6 and kept a 101 temp for most of the day Saturday. It finally broke Saturday night. They did a chest x-ray thinking that maybe it was pneumonia but the x-ray was clear. However they did a blood culture which showed bacteria therefore he was started on IV antibiotics which he gets every 24 hrs.
Then yesterday morning his red blood count was down to 7.7 so he had to get 2 units of blood. I don't think the Doctors even know why his count dropped so low or if they do they haven't told us.
Of course now with the infection and needing the transfusion he's not getting to go home today which means that he can't start the Cyber Knife treatments until he's out of the hospital. We're not sure how much longer he's going to be here.
Mentally he's in and out. Most of the time he's sleeping or seems to be sleeping but he's almost constantly moving his hands and talking. We've gone through working on the trains on the railroad to working on things at the barn to this morning he was putting rubber horseshoes on a vest for me. The strange thing is that he can be in this other world one minute and then the next minute he can be just as lucid and know exactly what is going on. Hopefully the Cyber Knife treatments will help with his pain and then he can get off this pain medication that is causing the delirium.
Thank you to everyone that has continued to pray for Daddy and the rest of the family.
2 comments:
Prayers that Uncle Roys symptoms are alleviated soon & for strength & comfort for the whole family.
Much Love & Many Blessings,
Karla
We are just trying to keep up with Roys progress. Hopefully the doctors will get his medications under controll and maybe by now he will at home so he will be able to start the cyber knife treatments. You all are in our thoughts and prayers
Love Dawn & Jim
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