Monday Again

What he came here to do last Monday night has been accomplished. The lung and bone marrow biopsies are completed. The intestinal thing is culturing. The top line diagnosis of the lung tissue is Graft vs Host Disease which they will treat starting today with 4x a day injected steroids. MRSA (stands for something like common antibiotic resistant staph, common to hospital workers and people who have a weakened immune system) also showed up in the earliest lab results. They'll start treatment of the GVHD here at the hospital, it can't be done at home because of its frequency of dosage. Though all the results aren't in, the pulmonologist doesn't want to wait. I believe testing for progress will be done with CT scan only, in addition to improved symptoms. But, he'll need to be here for, I could say several more days, but I don't even annoy them by asking anymore. How can they possibly know--but when the dose is reduced to fewer injections, and maybe oral prednisone, he'll go home. Soon, I predict, he'll be bored and irritable, a sure sign of improvement. For now, he's drifty and recovering once again from the anesthetic administered for this morning's bone marrow biopsy. More soon--it should be much better in a few days. MJ