skippyhawk

In the last post Bob told you how good he felt, chemo sabe was taking a break and life was pretty good. Now not so much!

The boy is back in the hospital, this time with blood clots in his legs. He was having pain in his leg yesterday and this morning, so we call the doctor, went in and just like last time went straight to the hospital. Right now we are just sorta waiting around for the treatments to begin and get the real scoop from the doctor.

I’ll post more later.

Sue

Went to the Dr this morning and I feel like I have lost a friend.   Chemo Sabe and I are no longer a team.  A  week from today we will hook back up, but for now, no sabe.

I have really been feeling good lately.  Sort of scary.  Once we got rid of the pnemonia (probably not even close on the spelling) I feel as good as I did before the treatements started in early January.  I want all of you people to know that you have played a big part in how good I feel.  Thanks again.

bob

I finally got released from the hospital around 12:30pm today.  Sue has done an excellent job of keeping everyone up-to-date on what has transpired over the last few days.  Not too much I can add to what she has already said.

The first two days I was in quite a bit of pain and was glad to be where I was.  The last three, not so much. 

I would like to thank all of you that came and visited me at St. Lukes.  It made my time there a lot more tollerable.   I am still trying to figure out who was more shocked when I exited the bathroom half naked on one particular day.  Me, because I didn’t expect to find two women in my room, or Pat and Stephanie because they didn’t expect me to come out of the bathroom half naked. 

I would like to respond to all of the comments that were made to Sue’s posts but I am not going to even try.  I think they were all great and enjoyed reading all of them.  Thanks again to everyone for all of your support.  It really means a lot.   I’ll do another post soon.

bob

For the title of this post to make any sense, you need to look under “sucker punched” for the comments made by our nephew Dan’s girlfriend Ellen. I haven’t met her yet, but I like her already. My new saying will be “swim between the flags”. Right now Bob is back between the flags.

Today’s report is still good. The antibiotics are working and the right dosage of pain medicine is helping manage the pain. The plan was/is to have him on antibiotics for 5 days before releasing him. Tomorrow they will be starting on oral antibiotics so that is a step closer to going home. He, of course is ready to leave now since he’s not doubled over in pain. But since I have the keys to the Jeep, and his pants, and the doctors have him hooked up to machines, its going to be tough for him to escape.

Once again I am going to ask you readers to imagine. . . you all know Bob and now imagine him without NICOTINE or CAFFEINE for 72 hours. He also is very bored and has a very small non-dish TV without TiVo, so he gets 4 stations and doesn’t get them well and can’t back them up. Hasn’t had a poker chip in his hand for over a week and he is wearing a hospital gown. Is this the happy Bobby we all know and love?, I think not!

He gets Chemo Sabe removed on Tuesday for a week so he can’t even complain about his “fanny pack” and it appears to work so I love the pack.

As I said in the beginning, Bob is between the flags and I feel confident that he will be swimming very soon.

Sue

Well the boy is in the hospital. He was in lots of pain yesterday when we went to feed Chemo Sabe so the doctors decided that a stay and tests were in order. They were looking for 1. Blood clot in his lungs, 2. pneumonia, 3. kidney infection, 4. cracked rib (from coughing) 5. cancer rearing its ugly head. So yesterday was kinda scary. Today is much better.

After many tests pneumonia won. The pneumonia is located in the lower right quadrant which was causing the pain. Considering the alternatives, I think that’s pretty good news. They are giving him antibiotics and heavy duty pain drugs.

The REALLY good news is the CAT scan showed that the cancer has stabilized from the last scan in February. This means that Chemo Sabe is working!

The bad news is that Bob has to stay at St. Luke’s Hospital until the end of the week.

More to come, so stay tuned and keep those prayers coming his way.

Thanks,

Sue