Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Sorry I am late in posting, but after being on the computer all day at work the last thing I want to do is more computer stuff.

Fred went for blood work on Monday. His white blood cell count dropped by one point which is not good. Dr. Solberg feels it could be due to his antibiotics and since today is the last day on his antibiotic he wants blood work done again next week to see if his numbers come up. The only normal range was his platelets on his blood work.

So he is once again stuck in the house which is driving him crazy, but better that than being out where there is all kinds of germs. He still has been tired a lot, but hopefully that will subside when the antibiotic is out of his system.

Monday, April 20, 2009

As of 4:30 pm today Fred is still fever free, but has no energy.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

We got sprung! We got home around 3 pm. Fred slept all the way home (3 hour drive). He ate a sandwich and is now sleeping again. All he complained about in the hospital was how he couldn't sleep without being awakened every hour.

He has been fever free for 24 hours. If his temperature goes up I have to take him back. His white blood cells are low so he is prone to infection, so he is to go nowhere for now, but he is just glad to be home.

Now my work begins.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Evening news:

His pulmonologist doctor came in and said his chest x-ray was the same, which is good because it hasn't gotten worse. He stated Fred's temperature last night is common following his bronchoscopy. As of 7:30 pm tonight he has been fever free all day, finally! If all goes well he maybe sprung tomorrow. We will wait to see how his blood work went.

I am going to bed early, I'm exhausted.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

I got to the hospital this morning and Fred's temperature was normal. The bronchoscopy did not show anything significant so the ordered another chest x-ray. We have not heard the outcome of those yet.

They took him off oxygen around 4 pm and he has been getting his IV antibiotics every 6 hours.

Right now all I can say is he a grumpy!!!

Friday, April 17, 2009

I am so tired so please bear with me as I try to write this.

Fred had his bronchoscopy this afternoon, we still do not know the results but he made it through the test. We will not find out some of the results until tomorrow. Some need to culture for 3 days.

He is also neutropenic so those numbers need to come up before he can be discharged.

This evening he started running a temp again. By the time I left the hospital it was 102.4. The nurse said not to plan on maybe getting out tomorrow no matter what the results of his tests are because he has to be temperature free for 24 hours.

That is all I can think of right now. I will keep you posted.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Another long day. Fred's temp has been down (highest today 101.3). They have put him on 3 different breathing treatments to help his respiration which has been borderline today. The oxygen was removed for a while, but they put him back on it later this afternoon. The pulmonologist (not sure of the spelling) came in after Fred had a chest CT scan. He explained two procedures that could be done, one a bronchoscopy and another is surgery to open his chest to take a biopsy of his lung to see what bacteria we are dealing with. The least invasive is the bronchoscopy which Fred agreed to have tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully they will be able to determine with this procedure what kind of bacteria to fight.

Please say some prayers for him cause there are risks involved. He isn't a happy person right now. The good news is his appetite was much better today. Yesterday he did not eat anything and today he had regular meals. I thought that and the temperature drop were all good signs, but I guess until they find out what they are dealing with they don't agree with me.