November 23, 2009. Good news! Jeremy's wbc, kidney and platelets levels have improved
just a hair today!!! Going in the right direction!

He has been feeling very nauseated all day today, the nurse said his
pain medicine can cause that side effect. It's like one medicine helps
one thing but causes ten more problems:/

Dr. Ismael ordered a chest xray to check the lungs and the pick line.
He could not get any medicine til the results from the xray came back
and he was 3 hours over due for his pain meds-not fun-but I read to him
from the book of Psalms and that really helped keep him focused
on the Lord instead of his pain. It was a precious time. The nurse finally
got the ok that the pick line looked good and gave him his meds.

The surgeon thinks that the liver abscess is not draining all the way, so when his kidneys are at an acceptable level they will do another ct scan. We don't know how long that will take though.

His rash is even worse today and Dr. Perez said that high platelet levels can cause
the rash, hopefully that will be gone soon.

Overall, a good day! God is good!

O LORD my God, I called to you for help and you healed me.
Psalm 30:2


November 24, 2009. After 2 weeks Jeremy has taken a turn for the better!

All his levels have gone down a few points today!
The Dr. took him off one antibiotic, he is still on two.
Started him on a less powerful/scary pain med. and switched
his anti nausea med. it makes him very sleepy. Hopefully he
can get off of all this stuff really soon.

He still has his rash and if it gets any worse the dermatologist
will do a biopsy on it.

He had another ultrasound on his liver today (get results tomorrow),
this is the third one and it takes the transport people forever to get him to and
from his room. They were supposed to get him at 1pm and got
him at about 3pm. It wouldn't be so bad but he couldn't eat or drink
anything before hand. So we finally get down to the basement level
and he gets the ultrasound and we're supposed to wait for the transport
to bring him back up to his room on the fourth floor. I told Jeremy we
were not going to wait and I would take him back, he didn't want us to
get in trouble but we did it anyway! As we snuck back to his room he
said, "we're fugitives on the run!" We got some strange looks but we didn't
get "in trouble":) What an adventure it was!

Thank you all for your continued prayers! God is good!

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds,
because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete,
not lacking anything."
James 1:2-4

P.S. This pic is of me making sure Jeremy is drinking his water:)
Doesn't he look thrilled?