Late last night Tony ended up passing some very bloody stool. This, of course, put everyone in a bit of panic. Throughout the night and into the morning he was given 2 bags of platelets and 2 of blood. His potassium had also reached critical low levels so he got 4 bags of that and had to take 2 potassium supplements orally. He is still on antibiotics, and they put him back on fluids and told him not to eat or drink anything until the bleeding stopped.
The bleeding seems to have stopped this afternoon/evening, so we are all breathing a sigh of relief. Tony has had very little pain today, which is a significant improvement, and he hasn't needed any anti nausea all day. He's been able to walk a lot of laps as well.
His 2 biggest complaints besides the bleeding bowels, are his very swollen feet, and the fact that this afternoon, when the tech needed to take his blood, she failed in 2 different spots before she had to grab someone else to poke him a 3rd time. It was already the 3rd time today they had to take blood, so it certainly wasn't how he wanted that to go.
An update from the homefront. We had a wonderful group of people from church come to the house this morning to help get the yard cleaned up. My expectations were greatly exceeded and I feel like a huge weight has been lifted. I can't begin to thank everyone enough for all of the help we have received.
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