Sunday Update

Jason's white count is elevated to 26,000, indicating the presence of some type of infection. We don't know where the infection is at this point because the chest X-ray was good (or so they say). They have started him on a second antibiotic, but his steroids do slow down the healing process for him and make it harder for him to recover from infections. He is still coughing up bloody mucous, so we believe his lungs could still be at risk. His pain is still the same. We got moved to a private room two days ago, and then had to be moved again. The handle in the shower broke when Jason was leaning on it, almost causing him to fall and definitely causing him some pain for awhile after that because he had to "catch" himself to prevent from being laid flat out on the ground. He has very little muscle left. After his accident, they moved us to another private room, and, because of Jason's accident, the hospital is now having to check all showers in the hospital. Apparently, the handle rusted out from behind because of water leaking in, so the problem could have occurred in other rooms. Hopefully, this will prevent an accident for someone else. They have started Jason on PT and OT, and they are helping him walk around this morning while I am at home with the kids. Jason's sister had our children over the weekend, but last night her son (who is in remission from leukemia and still has a very low white count) started throwing up. I don't know what the plans for our children are at this point. Today is Jason's birthday and the kids and I are going to pick up a cake and go have a small party for him at the hospital. After that, I don't know. Thank you for your prayers.