not a great day...

tim ended up back in the hospital today. (not just the "day hospital" but the overnight hospital).

sunday night he started not feeling very well and by the mid-morning he had developed quite a list of symptoms. i will not bore you with all the details but he is a hurting puppy.

the short summary of the day...FEVERS are back along with the newest addition A STAPH INFECTION. we have kept him infection-free for about a year and a half and within 12 hours he developed a HUGE staph infection (mostly on his face). he also is still very NAUSEOUS and still in extreme PAIN. he has a few more tumorish looking things growing in his neck that could be cancer or staph.

when i left him tonight he was on 3 antibiotics and PCA pump full of pain medication and a nice continuous flow of anti-nausea medicine. my best guess is that within a day or so he will be on that nasty nutritional stuff if he still isn't eating. he really is a mess tonight. he has no spleen and no white blood cells to fight off the infection so the antibiotics have to work!!!

before i left tonight they had just done an MRI looking for brain tumors...we will get those results tomorrow i guess. they are going to call in the gastric guys to look at his stomach (probably a scope will be done tomorrow) and the dermatology guys and gals were already in to poke and scrape and culture. and he just lays there and is so polite and patient and agreeable to whatever they tell him...i am not sure that i could be that way for this long.

well...sorry for the bad news tonight. all i can say is to hold steady and keep praying. last night he was telling me that sometimes he has a problem praying on these really rough days and i assured him that it was OK because he has a host of intercessors out there praying for him.

thanks for checking in.

tim and tammy