Week One Done and Gone...and Still Dancin`

DK's dad here...

What a week! An new president and lots of challenges in the transplant battle.

Shin Bone Connected to the....

Shin bone pain was a major issue for DK. He had daily visits with pain that required medication to give him relief. It started out with a kind of dull pain in those long bones (and if you know how tall DK is, those bones are very long...smile), and escalated to a sharper pain that included his knees as well. Thank God for pain meds.

Juicy....

Another major challenge for DK was his bout with mucositis (inflammation and irritation of the mucous membranes) in his throat and down into his tummy. Very painful..... As a result, he hasn't been able to eat anything or drink much in several days. He's getting nutrition and fluids intravenously through the direct line in his chest. Another side effect of this situation is excess mucous that he can't quite clean on his own, so they gave him a suction tube to help keep on top of all "juicy stuff" he keeps manufacturing. In short, this situation literally sucks.

Fever's Back....

After a week of no fevers, he started spiking fevers again yesterday. So far the blood cultures aren't showing any kind of infection. They did another CT scan, which showed that the pneumonia has greatly improved....but also show a little swelling on his liver (which they will continue to watch). Bottom line his pneumonia is better and they're not sure why he's having fevers...which could be just because he's so darn HOT! Smile.

Still Dancin`....

When he's feeling good (relatively speaking), he's on the phone, watching the worst, low budget movie on the SciFi channel, and/or he goes for walks on the ward (back and forth; back and forth). When he's feeling really good (really relatively speaking), he dances. Yes folks....he dances. It ranges from demonstrating a recently created dance in honor of one of his favorite nurses (note that all of them seem to be his favorites) to treating some other patient's visitor (who happened to come upon the demonstration) how to do the basics of popping and locking. Of course, his mother is always a candidate for a boogaloo roll lesson...too funny. One evening he called out one of his nurses with a step he created on the fly just for him. The nurse, "MJ", threaten to recommend him for a psychiatric consult. Too funny!

He's into week #2. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. We want no infections and those stem cell to hurry up and graft. Blessings....

DKDaddy out!