Yesterday was pretty rough in the breathing department. We moved to a new room in progressive care unit so they can give him higher volume of oxygen. The o2 units on this floor have a higher volume throughput. He continues with breathing treatments every 4 hours and they've added a couple tricks to enable him to cough up the aforementioned gunk.
Today we had a better day, although he's still not hungry. The stuff he's coughing up tastes ( and smells) horrible so no real appetite. He'll have another broch, tomorrow, but this will be a simpler procedure just sucking (auctioning is the technical term) and rinsing to clear out gunk. We hope this will help the lung to open up. It is likely he'll have a similar procedure later in the week.
It's been wonderful to see Marie, John and Gail. Marie's experience in the medical field as well as her clarity and compassion have been invaluable, calming and centering. Today when I introduced her to one of the many professionals to traipse through our room, I said, "this is my friend Marie from Chicago," then gesturing to the doc, I said "this is the hospital oncologist." He interpreted this to mean that Marie was an oncologist so the rest of the conversation was between the two of them. It was amusing, yet informative.
Tomorrow morning is an early start with a 5:00 am x-ray, 7:00 am visit with the hospital pulmonologist (Dr. Krishna is off ...imagine, on a holiday (which btw neither of us remembered it was a holiday tomorrow)), then the big suck at 7:45. Both Marie and Linda will be with me to give me tons of support. I'm hoping for a good night's sleep for both of us.
Please continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers.
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