In Strong again

Wow - what a day. While we got the bleeding to stop, Joe had many blood clots in his nose and throat, thus the visiting nurse determined that he really needed to go into Emergency. We were blessed to have a wonderful Ear, Nose and Throat doctor take care of him. He removed the blood clots - which were many and huge - and packed his nose. That procedure is tough to tolerate - Joe was a trooper - and even on heavy morphine he was in desperate pain. But, he got through it and 10 hours later I was feeding him spaghetti in 6-3400.

His platelet and blood counts are low which was the reason that we could not get his nose to stop bleeding - so he received fresh frozen platelets, plasma and 2 units of blood.

The plan today is to remove the packing from his nose and see if it continues to bleed. If it does, they will cauterize the vessels.

We hope that he will return home tonight, but, ya never know!

I am off to the hospital - will post an update tonight when I return.

With love and thanks
Vicki, Gina & Tom