Houston - Day 3

Today was another eventful day in Houston and at Dr Amato's place. Joe woke up in pretty bad pain at 2 am - abdominal pain - thus the day began very early for us. We called our research assistant who got us into the doctor bright and early and he took a look at Joe. I was concerned about an obstruction in his bowel or a perforation in his bowel or intestines, but the doc believes that he has an infection (another one) and put him on a strong antibiotic. I was able to hike to the pharmacy and get him the antiobiotics and a strong pain killer that he needed. It's pouring here in Houston - POURING- so traveling is - well interesting on foot! :-)

Day 3 of IL-2 went well again. Some shakes, fever and chills, but all in all, he is doing well with the medicine. And this is the worst of the 6 weeks! I don't want to get too optomistic....afraid that Murphy's law will come and bite us again! Thursday and Friday we'll pop into the clinic for Joe's shot - and then back to the hotel. We are hoping to see our nephew and neice Joe & Adrianne Martyniuk over the weekend if Joe is feeling well.

Continued prayers for Joe to make it through this journey with a postive outcome! Also prayers to Tom's friend Jake and Kate's grandmother Kathy who both got in car accidents this week. We are grateful that they are both physically fine though their cars are hurting!

Much love to the Pettinaro's who are taking Tom on vacation with them tomorrow - -fully knowing how much he eats! We are grateful for your friendship and support.


Love
Vicki