finally posting...

I know it has been a long time since I posted anything on here, but Fred has been having some rough days.

We went to Mayo on Tuesday, July 2nd and presented to the doctor all the problems Fred has been experiencing.  In total 18 vials of blood was taken and a chest x-ray.

Fred tested positive to a test that I had to look up to understand completely.  Fred has autoimmune hemolytic anemia which is rare and causes antibodies to be made against a person's own red blood cells.  In other words, he has antibodies attacking his red blood cells.  He received an injection of Procrit, which he will have to receive weekly to boost his red blood cells.  If this does not work it will probably mean a blood transfusion.

He is also running continuous fevers in the 100 range.  He has 2 antibiotics for this, which yet have not helped. 

We are just taking one day at a time.  He has to have weekly blood work done, so we will see how well his blood work is next week.