"Just the facts"-- Back in the hospital, still dealing with some GVH, still on some steroids, and a new side effect that is hard to deal with.
Well, have you been wondering what in the heck has been going on? Me too, sometimes. I will start with letting you know that B is back in the hospital, but not for why you might think. I have always known that being on steroids for any length of time is essentially not good for you. This is why they are measured out in various formations and usually go from a lot at first to less and less. But there are other side effect that don't play well with your body or your mind. Well after 3 months of being on steroids, B has been experiencing a couple of side effects. The first one is steroid induced high glucose. Otherwise known as diabetes. So you are informed, he does not have diabetes, just steroid induced diabetes, which means that once off the steroids this side effect will go away. The second side effect crept up on us and caught us a bit off guard, this one plays with your mind, and not in a good way. We have been trying to manage it with better sleep meds and schedule, and 24/7 watch, but this past Thursday, which will go down in a record book as a really great, but also very trying day, some events happened to force a better course of action. B saw his big doctor on Thursday in the afternoon. He had had a great day with my mom, tracking the sailing races and eating some good Italian food. He was pretty excited and talking a lot when the doctor revealed the results of his latest bone marrow biopsy. The results, are you ready for this.....were that the bone marrow is now free of any scar tissue that was preventing blood production. The marrow is clean and young and healthy!!!!! Such wonderful awesome news. Truly an answer to prayer! We thank each and every one of you for partnering with us in your support and prayers. We weren't sure we would ever hear news like this. So now you know why this day will go into our record books as a banner day!
On this most wonderful day we also were tried, we had some drama that took us down a road that was difficult and seemed unfortunate, but I have to say that we were being watched out for all along. B fell and hurt himself, and we had to call in the ambulance and take him to the hospital. Amazingly nothing was broken or fractured, just 5 stitches to the chin. It was a lot of drama as B's mind was not cooperating with the events of the injury. To help this situation on Friday we admitted B back into the hospital so the docs could assess him to get all his medicine working for him and not against him. We are still working through this process. Have you ever had a zenith experience or an abyss experience? Well we got both on the very same day. For me it was chased with a 40 hour lack of sleep session. Saturday was a much better day all around. I would like to thank a few people that were available to assist me during the crisis, first, of course were my daughters, while although distraught could follow instructions and had enough clarity to pray with me. A neighbor who I just found out flagged down the ambulance and directed them to our home. And a very special brother in law who came when called and rode with B to the hospital and kept him company while I was dealing with admin stuff. During a very trying time in his own life he sacrificed on our behalf and for that we will always be so grateful. If you could keep him in prayer, as his father passed away today.
So you can see we are not free from troubles but with support and prayer and the helping hand of our God we can make it through trying times. This we do know and have been tested on.
Until next time,
Hopeful Believer.
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