Talked with mom this afternoon - dad had a good morning. Last night he had a fever during the night so they postponed the procedure to place the blood filter in him. They don't want to chance an infection right now. So tomorrow they will be drawing blood to see if there is an infection present. His fever was gone today - so hopefully they will be able to do the procedure tomorrow. This bumps back the colonoscopy till the following day. They tried doing a little feeding through the tube today - didn't go very well so they discontinued it.
Dad had a male nurse yesterday and today. Mom said that went well for dad. It can't be easy having young women taking care of you all the time. Today they also changed the pickline used for the chemo. It had come out a little or something. Mom said it can be uncomfortable when they put in the new pick so she was trying to distract dad. While doing so she was watching what was going on in the room and counted the tubes going into and out of dad. There were 11 bottle (bags) hanging going into dad. 10 were IVs and 1 was his feeding tube. Then there were 3 tubes coming out. 1 with stomache contents, and 1 for each of his toileting needs. She said she just had to chuckle - nothing else really to do.
Mom said thanks for the continued cards and notes. She is getting quite a stack. She reads them to dad and then hangs them up but dad has not been up to her reading the last few days. The chemo continues to make him very nauseous. Mom has read them and enjoys the notes and encouragement that comes through them! Thanks again for loving my folks so much!!!
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