A Better Day...

John is having a much better day than yesterday. I couldn't make it due to the weather and a full day of morning sickness. I was able to stay in contact with him and the doctors. He did get a picc line put in after a platelet transfusion. He won't need to be a pin cushion as much anymore. He will be getting 2 units of blood tonight. They were waiting on the blood bank to send it up. He did go into a-fib last night along with a fever. He has not had any a-fib issues today so that is a good sign. They have now determined that the issue with the a-fib is from an infection. Infectious disease believes they have it covered with all the antibiotics and now have added another to hopefully get this taken care of. The doctor said things are definitely better than yesterday and they will keep checking on him through the night.

I talked to him around 6 he was definitely more perky. I think that had to do with the fact that the majority of his favorite nurses were visiting him. He can't wait to get back to his nurses. They have all become more like family to us now than just his nurses. He said he was still very tired but not as bad as he was where his eyes would shut mid sentence or while drinking water. They have started some lasix to get rid of some of his extra fluid. Hopefully it will be a quite night with no issues and see what tomorrow brings for us. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.