Playing rock...paper....scissors to see who gets to take care of John this week...
So...yeah...it's kind of like this. You have to laugh, or you'd cry.
John crashed and burned this morning, after a week of not eating enough to keep a sparrow alive.
It has been a rough year. Two surgeries and three hospitalizations and it is only March.
He is exhausted.
We are exhausted.
He has lost 20-some pound that he didn't have to spare.
I have probably gained that much in stress-eating.
I seriously think they released him too quickly after his last surgery.
He never regained his ability to eat...and was having real difficulty taking care of himself at home.
It is frustrating.
We will get through this.
More:
They finally got him a room at 4AM and he is admitted.
A laundry-list of tests this morning...so maybe we will know something by tonight.
More:
Slightly elevated liver enzymes...suspected acites...checking bile function...severe undernourishment and dehydration.
Update:
Liver enzymes heading down.
No acities.
Bile function unrestricted.
Ringer's Lactate to bring up fluid and electrolyte levels.
Eating without severe pain at this time.
Condition remains guarded...some rehab may be necessary.
Still extremely weak.
Well..we seemed to have came to the crux of the matter.
When he was sent home directly after the removal of his badly infected gall bladder...infection had spilled over into his system.
They had not sent him home with antibiotics.
At home he had gotten sicker and sicker until his eventual collapse.
He has been on IV antibiotics since Sunday.
They released him today to rehab. And sent oral antibiotics with him.
He is still very unsteady requiring a wheelchair and emaciated...it will be weeks to recovery and he is still quite ill but eating, now.
Dehydration is no longer an issue.
We are hopeful.
