Well Ken is still in the hospital.  The vomiting has slowed down alot and while it’s still there it’s not as bad.  Now he has contracted something called C Diff which is crazy diarrhea commonly picked up in the hospital.  It can also be caused by antibiotics, which he’s had a lot of in the past few months.  He will not be leaving until that is treated and he can keep his food down for 24 hours.  I spent most of the day at the hospital helping him bathe and making sure he was communicating with the nurses and the Dr’s ok.  There was a problem with him not gettting his nausea meds because he wasn’t asking for it.  Ken, whose mouth hurts all of the time, but especially when he tries to talk just figured they’d give it to him when it was time.  The nurses were expecting him to ask.  So, he had some more nausea/vomiting this evening.  I got the communication problems straightened out and requested that they just give him a dose every 4 hours until further notice without him having to ask so hopefully he’ll start feeling better now.

There is also the issue of the infection he has in his ears, behind his nose and tongue.  They weren’t treating that specifically.  So, the nurse left a note for me in Ken’s chart to followo up on that, since the Dr. came in about 6:30pm but left because Ken was supposed to be set up for isolation but wasn’t yet.  He said he’d come back but by 8:30 he still wasn’t back so I had the nurse page him and he had already gone home.  ::sigh::  Hopefully I can get that straightened out tomorrow. I sure don’t want that infection to get worse while they are treating the other one since the nurse said the antibiotics they are giving him for his gut

We are hanging in there.  Please keep us in your prayers.

Wendy