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Friday, April 30, 2010

His blood tests show his clotting to be at 25% of what is considered low normal. We are cutting back on the blood thinner medicines, and modifying his diet to get things back in balance. His white count is off too which means he needs to avoid being anywhere around sick people until things get back in balance.
The doctor hasn't let us know the blood test results from yesterday yet...time zones get in the way. They did give us a different spot to use for injections, and it seems to work better. The old spot was pretty used-up.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

For the last few days, he has had longer-than-normal bleeding at the injection site after his daily blood-thinner injection. The doctors have ordered a blood test to see what is going on...we should have the results today.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Tony is feeling fine again. We don't know what caused his pain last night, but our operating theory is that he got a gas bubble from taking his pills with a carbonated beverage. The CAT scan didn't show any bleeding or anything else wrong, and the anti-heartburn medicine had no effect indicating that there were no excess acid problems.
He is home and sleeping. The hospital gave him some medicine that should have cleared up heartburn, but it didn't. Then they did a CAT scan and a gave him a bunch of benadryl, and he got better. We don't really know what it is or was, but he is sleeping now and seems to be okay. We will see how he feels when he wakes up.

Monday, April 26, 2010

He is going to the ER tonight with increasingly painful abdominal pain; maybe heartburn.
The instructions say that new or increased heartburn requires doctor's attention.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

He woke up last night with his arm feeling wrong. He said it felt like it was shaking constantly, but it wasn't. He took his medicine for when his arm acts up, and went back to sleep. Today, his arm and leg aren't quite as good as they were the day before, but still much better than when he left Houston.

He has played Xbox most of the day online with his friends.