Today we met with Dr. Murphy at 0730 and discussed the days plans. He will get enemas today, two MRI's (brain and lower back) and they found out why his blood is MIA.
So remember what I posted just earlier this morning regarding our five priorities. Number five was to find out why all the blood he was getting was going through him so quickly. Through a series of blood tests they found that Dad is suffering from (due to cancer) hemolytic Anemia...see this link for more info: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001597/
What that means in my simple guy terms is that his body is pulling apart his red blood cells. So they should normally last up to 120 days but now they won't last nearly as long (more tests will figure out full extent).
This IS treatable. Using steroids he the effects will be tempered and thru infusions he will have more energy. We knew last night that he'd need to get infusions through the end, now we know why...nice!
Answers are coming
Thank you Jesus,
Jeff
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