THursday Evening Update

We had a fairly good day. We are still making small steps in the right direction. The white blood cell count is down to 13, but he is still running a slight fever. They were able to pull off some fluid in dialysis but not as much as they had. The positive part of that is he was putting out a more urine. We are hoping that this means the kidneys are coming back.

Ok, now to the big news of the day... They did another scan of the abdomen. They found a pocket of fluid near the pancreas and fluid in the colon. We will have more information on this in the morning. They will do another scan of the area a different way tomorrow and then will decide what to do. There is a chance that they will have to drain the fluid from the colon. This is potentially where the infection is that caused the white blood cell count to go up and the fevers. The doctor told us that there is a chance that this may help the heart a little until he is more stable for the valve surgery.

Our big prayer request for tonight is that the scan and procedure go well in the morning.

Thanks for the prayers!!!