Day 15

Thursday September 27

Morning

He now has an infection somewhere in his body on top of everything else. His white cell count is three times what it should be. He is losing blood and has had to be given three units of blood since Tuesday night. He is able to communicate with us. His speech is very slow and hard to understand but he tries very hard to speak. I will get the results of the CT scan and some cultures when I get to the hospital. He is not sleeping very much the nurse said when I called this morning at 6:30.

Please pray for healing for him and strength for me. My heart aches when I am not with him. I have never known a pain like this.

Evening

Another long day at the hospital. When I arrived at the hospital they had taken him to radiology to put in the new dialysis line and the new PIC line. The results of the CT scan were not very helpful. The only thing that showed up was possible cirrhosis of the liver. The infectious disease doctor asked if my husband was a drinker. He drank when he was in the Navy and will have an occasional drink now but he is not a heavy drinker. The Gastro doctor said that he did not think it was the liver. He did a scope and could not find the bleeding. No answers, just more questions. One of the nurses said that she felt that he would be in the hospital for 3 to 5 more weeks minimum. She is also the one that told me for every day he spend in the hospital bed to expect 2 days for rehabilitation.