August 18, 2009

Scott got back to the room around lunchtime and was feeling pretty good - amazing how a little anesthisia can do that to you. He had lunch, called his parents and then watched some TV. The cultures to determine what type of infection it is are still not solid. Hopefully we'll know something more on that in the next couple of days. On the way to my car I stopped in at the transplant center to touch base with our transplant coordinator. As Scott's transplant status changes so do his coordinators. He's had 3 now and until today I'd only met one. Anyway I chatted with her a few minutes and I'm feeling much better having taken the time to meet and talk with her. She said the test results will be discussed tomorrow at "conference" and she'll let us know as soon as she knows something - so any addtional, extra or multiple prayers are most welcoming. I would imagine that he's probably starting to feel some pain now as the meds wear off and encouraged him to catch up on some rest tonight. Thx.

August 18, 2009

I spoke with Scott late last night to see how the rest of his day went after I left the hospital. It was a busy day. He had a new (temporary) port put in so he can get dialysis and got back to the room just after lunch time. He got about half of his lunch finished before they came to take him down for "mapping". I've not asked for clarification on exactly what mapping is, but we think it has to do with the drs scanning his body to determine where the permanant port can be placed once the the infection has been irradicated. I know the results of the blood cultures drawn at dialysis last week have been faxed over to the hospital, but have yet to ask anyone what the results were. He was very groggy when we talked last night so I asked him to call his nurse so I could find out what his schedule was for today. Oddly we did not see another dr yesterday after about 10:00am. His nurse told me he was scheduled for 10:30am to go and get the arm treated. With the nurse and Scott not being able to tell me anything more about today I decided best to try and arrive for dr rounds, between 6:30 and 7:30am. At 6:45 am the nurse came in to tell him transport was on the way up to get him for the surgery. Almost 4 hours early...good thing I got here when I did. Since the drs had not been here for rounds I asked the nurse to call someone to come up. It may seem like a big stink Scott and I are making about seeing the drs, however over this past weekend they wanted to move in a direction that Scott did not want too and we've not seem any of these drs since the weekend. A little bit scary. So the one dr I saw yesterday morning was the same one that came up to confim that we were all on the same page - we were - whew! They took him off for the surgery and while I've been typing this the surgeon came in to tell me that they're done and Scott is doing fine. They will probably keep him down there for a few hours to keep an eye on him.