A very hard night....

After much discussion between us and considering the questionable state of John's company, we both decided that I should return to work once my leave was up. Well that day arrived and it was today. With a heavy heart and much worry I left NYC. John's parents will be there next week to spend time with him and be his caretakers. I greatly appreciate their help.

Of course the day after I leave is the day he gets a temperature and has to go to Urgent Care. He arrived at Urgent Care last night at about 8:30 pm and did not get put into a room on the fifth floor till 5 pm tonight. He spent 21 hours in Urgent Care. It seems there was some confusion as to the protocol of moving a patient that is getting a blood transfusion.

He is now in his private room and they think the problem is that he has some sort of infection in one of his catheter lines. Dr. Feldman says he will probably start feeling better tomorrow but that he will be in the hospital till Saturday or Sunday. Since his counts are so low from the last chemo round he is very suseptible right now to any sort of infection or virus and they are being especially careful with him.

Good news is....Dr. Feldman told him today that he will not be going through the last round of chemo. His tumor markers have been undetectable since before he started the high dose and I think they are pretty confident that it got all that it needed to. Next week he will have a follow up CT scan to make sure that the chemo did get rid of the little spot they saw on the lymph node in his neck. If there is anything left in his neck they will most likely remove the lymph node. He will need to stick around and have labs drawn for a couple weeks to make sure his counts bounce back. When they decide all is A-ok, I assume they will take the catheter out and send him on home.

Many prayers and fingers crossed that the chemo has done it's job and John can get back to his "normal" life ASAP.