Hello friends and family! Sorry for the delay in reporting the results of the CT scan yesterday. The lag of information may hint that we got good news, and we did! The clot is stable, so they will NOT be treating it with anything more. We will be on oral antibiotics for the next 10 days for the infection, and will check the area on a future CT scan. Hooray! One bullet dodged. And at the doctor rounds this morning they said that if we stay on track this weekend, our target to be released from the hospital on Monday is a real possibility! Another piece of great news! So things we need to accomplish to get home is continuing to be fever/blood infection free, and that he can be eating on his own. He already is starting to want to eat, so we will work to encourage that! Physical Therapy has started too--the therapist had him walking around this afternoon and it was great to see! She said each day laying in bed takes 4 days to gain back that muscle loss--so at day 16 he is pretty weak! We'd appreciate prayers that he can gain a sufficient appetite and keep it down, and that he can gain strength this weekend as we continue to stay infection free.
On the home front, Josh worked this whole week with help from my wonderful relatives Mark and Pam being at our home with Molly. She had a great week having tons of fun with them and experiencing the snow storm! We are working on a long term plan for her--which may include Preschool/Daycare in town. We think it really would give her some stability during these hospitalizations, and also put less pressure on friends and family for her care during those times as well. I think she'll do great, but it's hard for me to accept that I can't be there with her all the time like I used to.
The next cycle of chemo is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, Feb 16th. which will be just like this last round, with a 5 day hospital stay at least while they administer the chemotherapy. We just hope that we get to go home a lot sooner following the last dose then we did this time! They reiterated that they wanted to monitor him more since the first round is so hard on his body, so we have hope that an almost 3 week hospital stay should be one of our longer ones!
Thank you, thank you again for the prayers for this scan and for us in general! They are working! God is showing us His faithfulness even amidst this awful trial!
~Heidi
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