Jim Update

OK so here is the latest.

Jim got out of the hospital on July 4th. We had two good family gatherings and then Jim was back in the hospital 4 days later with another pulmonary hemorrhage and CMV in the lungs again. I actually think that he never really got better from the last episode but the medicine put it at bay enough to make him look and feel better. So, the doctors have decided that that medication was not working and now he is on a trial drug. He is currently in the ICU so that he can get breathing support, but he is doing much better from Thursday when he came in. At home he was going to get dialysis every other day, but here in the hospital they have been doing it every day. They are getting about 3 liters off him every day. He is also getting plasma exchange while he is here. Hopefully he will be able to go back up to the bonemarrow floor soon. As soon as he gets off of this by-pap machine (breathing support) he will be able to transfer back to bonemarrow. He was definitely hating life on Thursday, but today he is feeling much better and even joking with the nurses.

So, we don't know how long this hospitalization will be. We did figure out though that since his transplant hospitalization the first week in March he has spent 11 and 1/2 non consecutive in the hospital. Fun huh.

Today I AM THANKFUL he is doing better.