Mike got his CT's done this morning, but not without trouble. In LR, their process for doing a CT at the oncologists office, is to fast after midnight the night before the test. Then the morning of the procedure, they have you drink two regular size bottles of water, instead of giving you any special contrast to drink. Mike was having trouble drinking his two bottles of water, but they let him drink as much of the two, that he possibly could, which ended up being most of them both. As they were running the CT's, Mike ended up vomiting the water up about a third of the way into the testing. They went on ahead with the scans, and hopefully they were able to get the pictures they needed, but it just goes to show the difficultly Mike is having, putting anything on his stomach.


I noticed on the way to Little Rock this morning, the symptoms of the ammonia build up in Mike has begun again. Mike was having hallucinations while sleeping in the car. He would all of a sudden, begin trying to grab at things out in front of him or off to the side. His body was also doing the more visible twitching, that had been gone for a couple of weeks. The symptoms even were pronounced to Mike, while I left him in the car alone. He woke himself up a couple of times trying to grab for things that weren't there.


It may sound funny, and we've certainly tried laughing it off a couple of times ourselves, but it is a very scary thing to see. These are the type of symptoms Mike has which can worsen into the Hepatic Enchephalapathy. Please pray that we're doing enough to prevent this from getting worse and out of control.


Also, please pray that the results from the CT scan's would be good and clear, and can give us a good idea of how to pursue treatment, without further harm to Mike.

We were called this evening by the oncologist. They gave him a preliminary report. Mike has another blood clot, this time in the area of were the drains are. At first, he was going to have to go back on injections in his stomach and increase the Coumadin (blood thinner) medication, but after a couple of confusing phone calls, the doctor called back and is keeping everything as it initially was this morning. BUT.........this may be the reason why Mike has been feeling so much pain in his right side, back, and being unable to eat or drink much. It's a little scary with two blood clots found. I just pray we can quickly resolve these issues and Mike will begin to feel better soon. He is so tired and weary. And so are the kids and I.

Thank you for continuing to pray for all of us.

P.S. I set up a way to reply to the comments some of you have left on our blog. Because I usually have the most current post only showing, I often don't get to respond quickly enough so you might see. So I have set up a guestbook to the side "Sign Our Guestbook", not only for you to leave messages there if you would like, but for me to also leave a comment to your comments, up and visible longer than just one day. ;) I hope that makes sense!