We have a problem

Tim's g-tube has some how manage to come out it's place. So it is no longer in a position to properly drain his stomach contents. It won't be long before he becomes nauseous. The nurse & mom are both trying to get a hold of the doctor. I'm not sure how this happened but it's going to have to be fixed and soon. I'll post something when I know something.

...The doctor just came by. He said Tim is too weak to try and do anything tonight. Since they don't have the tube, they overnight another one. Once Tim is more stable, they will try and fix it. In the meantime, he will continue to receive antibiotics and the Dopamine (bp medicine).

Low Bp

Tim was admitted to the hospital yesterday after having a procedure to change the tubing on his nephrostomy drain at Memorial North. His blood pressure was 60 over 40. His hemoglobin was 7 and had a fever of 102. He was transported via ambulance to Memorial Main to a room in ICU. He is on medicine to increase his blood pressure and he received two pints of blood last night. He is doing some what better today but he is still very sick. We were planning to go to the mountains this weekend for a weekend get-a-away. Looks like we will have to postpone it.

The Last Day

Today was Dad's last day after working at Memorial for the last 11 (almost 12) years. It was a really nice party. There was a LOT of chicken with all the fixin's, and the marble chocolate cake was huge. Much to his surprise and mine, they gave him his 18.8V Dewalt circular saw which was nested inside 3 boxes, taped together with heavy duty duct tape and covered in sawdust. I guess they wanted him to do some work on his last day!

I added some pictures of the party we had on Sunday. Dad wanted a guitar so that's what we got him. Now he's going to have plenty of time to learn those Johnny Cash songs he likes so much.

Cute

The Wrong Way
The Right Way

G-Tube Replacement

Last Wednesday (Tim's birthday), Tim went to ER because he was throwing up blood. My mom and I had decided that he needed his G-tube replaced. On Friday his gastroenterologist just happened to be at the hospital. He had been in Iran for the past month and was not even supposed to be back to work until today. Anyway, my mom pulled some strings and he came be to see Tim. He agreed with us...actually he figured out it right away and his has procedure scheduled for today 3:30 p.m. to replace it. It will probably be quite tricky since this is a standard G-tube and the doctors aren't the ones who put in the original. Not to mention, Tim's anatomy is totally different from eveyone else.