Dad has not been feeling to well lately, and it all came to a head yesterday. To give a quick recap, he has lost over 15 lbs. in the last week and a half, and been to over 7 doctor appointments in the last week. He was not feeling great before this, but last week was worse. He was in ER on Friday night, and then again yesterday (Mon. March 9th). This time he stayed in the hospital. Through all of this, they have found out he has a sinus infection, a gut/stomach infection, and as of yesterday they found an aneurysm on his brain. Both the oncology and neurology have visited with my parents and their hopes are high.
First with the oncology doc., he says with all the infections dad is dealing with, he is not ready for surgery. They need to get his body built back up. His platelets are slowly decreasing, which would not be good for surgery. However, the doc said that because of all the meds he is on right now could be the reason why they are low. He has talked about doing another bone biopsy to be sure the leukemia has not come back. Then work on getting him more stable for surgery.
Now to the neurology doc., he said the aneurysm is in a place were it wouldn't be to bad to get to, however it is fairly wide at the base which is a little more tricky. He is hoping to wait about 2 weeks for dad to get a little healthier, then first go in through his groin area with a scope or something of that sort to look more closely at the situation so he can be better prepared for surgery.
I hope this all makes sense. As I'm sure you can understand when I say my head is spinning a little. Once again with great humility we would ask any of you to pray on behalf of our dad and strength for my mom. We recognize the the strength in the Lord and your prayers. Thank you. If anyone is interested his in currently in room 795 at Utah Valley hospital and the phone number directly to his room is 801-357-5795
Once again thank you all.
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