Ed again. Andre has been having a rough weekend. He still has a fever and this time, it's been present pretty much all day. Today, they took another CT scan. Originally, they were just going to scan from his abdomen down to his groin area. But because he woke up this morning with difficulty breathing, they decided to include his chest area in the CT scan and to put him on supplementary oxygen. This happened at about 2 this afternoon. At around 5:30 PM, his nurse came in and ask if I looked good in yellow.
The chest CT scan result showed some sign of potential viral infection. His blood draws still had not shown any infection whatsoever so they decided to get a different sample. This time, it's nasal washes. If you haven't had them, it's like this: the nurse squirts 5 ml of saline into a nostril and the patient needs to blow his nose as hard as he can, catching the washing in a cup. The same process is repeated on the other nostril. Waterboarding lite.
So going back whether I look good in yellow (I do), I and everyone who enters his room now has to wear a light yellow protective nylon gown, a pair of pale blue nitrile gloves, and a baby pink face mask with built-in visor. Andre now needs to be in "isolation" to protect the other patients on the floor from what he could potentially be carrying. It takes at least three days for the results to come back. Hopefully, it'll come back negative and that he'll start feeling better soon.
One more thing: because of his persistent GI problems, he had just "bought himself a GI consult" as his hospital oncologist said this morning. A gastroenterologist will come and talk to him tomorrow because they don't work on weekends (remember Andre's rant about gastroenterologists?). We'll know when the actual "spelunking" will happen after the talk with the gastro. The GI problems might be a manifestation of GVHD. I know we need a little bit of it since it's the same mechanism that is harnessed to kill Andre's bad myeloma cells, but I hope it'll be manageable.
This is it for now. It's Sunday night which means I go back to Vancouver tomorrow morning. Please keep sending Andre your love thoughts.
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Yellow suits eh? With TV's in the tummy? (Did you ever see the UK kids programme the Teletubbies?)
Roobeedoo will try anything to raise a smile. Hugs to both.
Prayers and Reiki continuing from here - and I intend that today (Monday) the team finds out what is causing the fevers and they have what is needed to set Andre right again, for the highest and best good of all concerned - so BE it and SO it is in the name of the living God. Amen.
good luck guys.
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