Roller coaster

Many of you don't know that Tom ended up in the hospital with the pneumonia. At first they thought it was your basic pneumonia and treated him with your basic IV antibiotics. He was in that time for seven days and then went home being told to expect to feel crappy for quite some time. Three days later he was worse, so we got to come back in through the ER and this time he's been here for another seven days. Gradually getting worse each day.

He has a team of doctors, Oncologist, Internist, Pulmonoligst and Infectious Diseases. Each of these doctors has partners and associates and each of them has a slightly or widely different idea of what is going on. Tom has been on the heavy hitter trio of antibiotics, guaranteed to get any bug, except of course the one that he has. A few days ago he had a scope with a camera shoved down his lung to look around and take some slime samples. The cultures have been gradually coming back, negative for TB, bacteria, viral, MERSA, Flu and God knows what else. Finally today they said they had a positive culture for yeast. So we got all excited and I called a whole bunch of people and told them we had it figured out. Then the third Infectious Diseases Doc shows up and says he really doesn't think it's yeast in his lungs, but it defiantly is in his throat. He has now been started on the anti-yeast drug and is having another scoping tomorrow complete with tissue samples this time.

This is just a basic overview. Even just the highlights would be way too long. I have been at living
at the hospital full time. Catherine has stepped up beyond what I could ever have asked of anyone. She has replaced me at home, getting the boys to school, taking care of the animals and the house. Lots of other people have been jumping in and bringing food, driving kids and more. I have never felt more supported. The boys are doing good, it's tough on them but they really seem to be handling it.

I'm done trying to predict when Tom will be better, I'm just trying to look forward to him being better. We think chemo will start in a couple of days. Now that the cat's out of the bag, I'll try to do more frequent postings and you can all ride the roller coaster with us.