Rough Day/ New Request

Today was a day that the meaning of "when it rains it pours" felt so real. To start it off, dad's nose began running in the morning. With a tube in your nose, its very difficult to control a runny nose and can become frustrating especially .

Next, dad has been on an eye drop medication for the duration of the chemo. A side effect from chemo is blindness, and the eye drops are supposed to help with that. But today his eyes began burning painfully.

The swelling has still not gone down, so the doctors began dad on lacix, which will cause the fluid swelling to drain through urine. They have tried to get him set up to move easily to get out of bed to release the fluid. A nice thing was the doctor added six feet of line to dad's tube to his stomach. Before, he was unable to move out of bed unless the nurses came to disconnect it. This gives him the freedom to move a little further and be able to sit out of bed with mom also.

Because they have noticed the swelling not going down, they went ahead and took an ultrasound today. The ultrasound showed the exact reason for that. They found a blood clot in dad's neck. They know the clot is caused by the hick-man catheter; that does sometimes happen. Their first option is to give him a bag of medicine that will flow through a tube to try and disintegrate the clot. If this does not work, they will be doing surgery on his neck to remove the clot.

Dad's biggest request right now is that the clot will go away and that he won't have to have the surgery. Please pray for that! Another huge request from my dad is this: He appreciates all those who have visited them in the hospital thus far; but he is requesting until further notice on this blog, that there would be no visitors. Him and mom are really not feeling up to visitors right now, as dad is really struggling and having a hard time. Mom needs/wants to spend all of her time helping dad right now, especially with how frustrating and hard it can be to battle so many problems at one time. Dad and Mom really appreciate the past visitors, with all of your help, love, hugs, care packages, etc. and really appreciate your respect towards them in honoring this request. The best thing you could all do is just be on your knees for each of these different areas that dad is struggling with, on top of battling stage 4 cancer.

Thank you all for your understanding, love and support towards my family.