From the time we arrived until we left, the Marriott treated us like royalty. We were in a beautiful huge room overlooking the water. Later in the day we took the sunset cruise and were treated to a nightly event where they lower the flag and fire the cannon on the USS Constitution. His 70th Birthday – he made it. Took a little persuading but I got him to wear the blinking birthday necklace and the pin…
The procedure went well and he was back in recovery within 45 minutes. The doctor said he found a total of 6 polyps – 5 he removed and clamped off so they wouldn't bleed but the one polyp was rather large. It's 4cm at the end of the colon and would need to be removed but it wasn't something that could be done at that time. There are two options – one is to have…
Ed will have a colonoscopy on Monday morning. They will remove a polyp they found when they were searching for the source of his bleeding a few months ago. The doctor also plans on doing a thorough examination of his colon which he wasn't able to do before. No matter what type of surgery, treatment or test Ed has, it's always a little trickier with him. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers that…
The three month visit today with Dr. Siegel was a positive one. His blood work numbers came back with every asterisk inside the column – which means all the blood counts were in the normal range. An asterisk to the left of the column is too low and an asterisk to the right of the column is too high…. his were all inside! The bone marrow is working and doing its job once again.…
We all celebrate in the great news from Andrew’s last scan and blood test – all is well. The scan is clear and the blood work is normal. It’s always a hold your breath time waiting for those results, so we’re all very happy to hear that everything is okay and life is good. Congratulations Andrew! We had our neighborhood get together on Saturday and had such a fun time. It’s only for those that…
Ed saw the cardiologist today and got a good report. Even though he has many heart issues, the heart itself and the valve are okay. We asked why we've heard 'heart failure' mentioned so many times while he was in the hospital. He explained since he's in a-fib and the heart itself is enlarged with some fluid retention, that is typically what they call it but… and he said this multiple times…. Ed is not…
We saw Dr. Siegel today and he was happy with Ed's scan results. Although we were never able to get a firm diagnosis just from a scan before, the lymph nodes are not swollen and that's a good sign. What he's concerned with is the higher temps that Ed's been getting over the last two weeks. He's only had temps twice in the 100 range but even 98-99 are high for him since his 'normal'…
Bob and Jan made a trip to visit with us for a while and it was nice to see them. Bob decided to surprise Ed with his ‘bald’ head and Ed wanted to surprise Bob with his full head of hair…. as you will see from the pictures. We sat around and caught up on a lot of the happenings with family. Happy to say that everyone is doing well.
Good news…. we won’t be going to visit with Dr. Siegel for about a month and Ed is feeling good. In two weeks he will have a CT scan to check on those lymph nodes and we’re sure they’ll be tiny and back where they belong. Dr. Siegel feels the chemo has done its job and most likely the first sign of any recurrence (which we don’t expect) is the return of the fever and…
Was only joking about him leaving pushing the IV pole – but it almost happened. Just when he was ready to leave….. only waiting to have the IV removed – the nurse came in with a shot of Lovenox!!! OMG – that set him off and, I will admit, it sent a jolt through me, too. As many of you know, Lovenox is what caused his brain bleed many years ago – so to see…