MONDAY EARLY MORNING

Good Morning.

We just got home from Hoag. What a very long night.

I will not bother to bore you with details other than to say that we are not sure what is going on. We know that Gary has an infection because his white blood count is 28,000 (normal is 4,000-11,000). It might be the original C Diff or it might be a urinary infection that is irritating the intestines and causing fluid absorbtion in the intestine rather than the bladder (which would account for the lack of urine and the mass output in the illeostomy). They started him on 2 different antibiotics tonight.

So, we will wait for the cultures to come back and talk with the Infectious Disease Doctor in the morning. They wanted to admit Gary but after all this time of getting to know the routine and knowing that we can care for him at home we asked that he be able to come home so that we could bypass the dreaded hospital stay. Thank God for Dr. Carroll (Barth's partner) because he backed up our decision and here we are!!!

We are unwinding now and hopefully able to fall asleep. My migraine just went away and thank God I forgot to give Michele her Excedrin back because it squashed that dang headache tonight! I feel so bad because over the past few days I missed Jenn's awesome Creative Memories Party and I missed Wendy's surprise party. I will have to make it up to them as long as they don't hold their breath waiting for me to do so!!! :)

Off to hopefully a peaceful slumber! I am suppose to take the kids to Disneyland today with Steph. I guess we will see how that goes! I need to set up doctor appointments, get drugs sent to the house, and get Hospice in place within the next few days. We are going to pick our Hospice Company and doctor this week. Should be lots of fun!!!

Thank you for your love and prayers and I will let you all know what's happening as soon as we find out.

Good Night (or morning for those of you who are getting up and going to work).

Love, L