Once again at 3am we were woke up for another chest xray, which looked good. They took the chest tube out around 10 and the doctor said as long as Dr. Schertz said it was okay Josh could go home. We waited on an oncologist to come in all day (Dr. Schertz was in Allegany …
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Todays update
Josh is feeling better today. He has been eating. He is still experiencing some pain which is to be expected with the chest tube still in. Hopefully, it will come out tomorrow..it all depends on the results of tomorrow’s x-ray. Speaking of x-ray….they come in every morning to get the x-ray at 3:30am! The latest …
Indiana bound
Surgery yesterday went well. We got to RMH at 7am and immediately talked to the surgeon who said that it would be later in the morning before they were ready for Josh because someone else was going first. About 15 minutes later the anesthesiologist came and got Josh, they were ready for him. I don’t …
Todays Dr. appointment
The appointment today lasted over 2 hours. When we got there Dr. Schertz still had not heard back from Indiana University. Josh still can’t get the nausea under control so we spend about 15-20 minutes going over a different “cocktail”. After that we discussed some concerns Josh had over his lung and feeling that it …
Out of the hospital… again
Josh had a CT done on Saturday to rule out a bowel obstruction. To save his body and time they went ahead and scaned his chest, abdomen, and pelvis for the bowel obstruction and to see if the cancer was gone. There was no bowel obstruction, they don’t know what is making his stomach hurt …
Surgery went well
Surgery went wall today. They took him back about 12:15 and he got out around 3. They drained over 2 liters of fluid from his left lung. Josh said that the doctor said that he would have to do it two more times to get all the fluid off. I didn’t get to speak with …
Surgery today
Josh is having surgery today. He is having an endoscopy done as well as a thoracentesis. Upper endoscopy enables the physician to look inside the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum (first part of the small intestine). The procedure might be used to discover the reason for swallowing difficulties, nausea, vomiting, reflux, bleeding, indigestion, abdominal pain, or …
Still at the hospital
Josh is still in the hospital. He got 3 units of blood on Sunday and is getting 2 more units today. His bone marrow is not functioning properly to sustain him with the amount of blood that it should. With time his bone marrow could start working again or he might need a bone marrow …
At the hospital again
Josh has been sick all week…I’d had enough. I made him go into the ER at Franklin Memorial this afternoon. His temp went up to 103.5, oxygen saturation level is low, blood pressure is really low. They were going to keep him but his bp kept dropping so they transferred him to RMH however he …
Round 4 is over!!
Round 4 ended on Friday. I stayed with Josh all day at the cancer center anxiously awaiting ringing the bell. At 2:15 the chemo was officially over and he rang the bell. I got pictures…lots of pictures even his nurse took pictures of us…crying. After we left the cancer center he wanted the great 611 …