Monday, August 25

Last night was a difficult night for Dave. He woke up at 1:30 throwing up and was awake until 5:00 with breathing episodes and more nauseousness. When the doctors made their rounds they decided to give Dave medicine 4 times a day for the nausea. They talked about many options on how to handle Dave's malnourishment. Dave is going to have a CT scan of his abdomen this afternoon. His WBC went down to 32,300! They also talked about pulling out the JP tube another inch today. Dave isn't running a temperature, however, one doctor suggested the reason Dave isn't running a temp with the high WBC (which would indicate infection) is because his malnurished body isn't able to run a temp. Dave hasn't had hiccups since the middle of the night, therefore no breathing episodes, PTL!!!!!