Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Not Congestive Heart Failure

We found out today after the doctors looked at the tests they did yesterday that Jerry doesn't have any fluid around his heart. He has inflammation in his good lung caused from the radiation. The radiation oncologist had told us that some patients get what they call "radiation pneumonia" and that is what this is. They are giving him steroids and antibiotics. Hopefully he will begin to breathe better when this begins to clear up. They also did some tests looking for blood clots in his legs and lungs and there were none and his heart is working properly. So that is a good thing. Also his blood count is good. Sometimes during radiation treatments the blood count goes down. He was still nauseated some today and didn't eat good. I hope that leaves soon so he can begin to eat more and gain some strength. He is so weak right now. He will probably be in the hospital a few more days and he doesn't seem to mind that. His Pulmonologist said he is not going to rush him out of the hospital. He wants to get his stomach settled and get him to breathing better before he sends him home. I am glad of that! They put in a Midline today for his IV. They were having problems with the IV's and had to keep changing them so this will eliminate them having to keep sticking him. They were having trouble finding veins because his veins are small.

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