May 22, 2013 Day 26...... The past 2 days have been a bit overwhelming for Deborah and Scotty.... Doctors coming and going, PT, OT, Social Workers, .......Nurses.....questions, diagnosis, more talking, more thinking, just a bit tiring and frustrating ! But here is where we are as of tonight !
Scotty had a liver biopsy this morning. They say tissue collected from the liver will reveal more information than the tumor that destroyed the L4 in his spine. Surgery is not an option as they have stuck to that sense day 1. Previous patients with this fracture have had surgery and still had pain. And we still do not have the origin and you don't open up the body when you do not know the origin.
The Hepatitis C is not a factor to worry about. So..... we now wait for the results of the biopsy which can take as long as 3 - 4 days. We are back to making those slides again!!
Now as far as PT and OT Scotty continues to work his arm muscles and leg exercises and he does really well with those. The BIG success today is he was able to sit on the side of the bed for 10 minutes. Yesterday he did two - 8 minutes sessions of sitting on the side of the bed. So as you can see this was a big step. Scotty will always have pain due to the fracture he just has to learn to handle the pain and be able to sit up for longer periods of time. They have agreed to let Scotty remain at the Rehab hospital until June 19th as long as he continues to improve. The PT and OT people are very good at what they do and they are working Scotty very hard to get him to his target date of sitting and walking with a walker.
He continues to have a not so good appetite and we continue to try and find things that might taste better. He had some of his co-workers stop by for a visit tonight and he was so glad to see them. He told me he was turning in early because he was a bit tired from the activities of the day.
Please continue to pray for Scotty , Deborah , and Noah as they continue to go through this journey..........
Matthew 6:34 "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for
tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its
own. " We are taking one day at a time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
