God knows that man has been through the dark places as well as you,,,will pray for speedy recovery and mercy for you both!
--- On Thu, 6/2/11, Emily <[email protected]> wrote: From: Emily <[email protected]> Subject: John Update 6/2/11 To: [email protected] Cc: "'John Meyers'" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 10:08 PM Hello Family & Friends, I haven’t sent out an update to this group since the end of March. John and I have been enjoying the comfort of home for 2 months. Except for c-diff that he got from taking antibiotics everything was going relatively smoothly until the beginning of May when John first started to complain of not feeling well…he said that he felt BLAH with no specific pain or achiness anywhere but tired and blah. It started to even effect his physical therapy to the point that the physical therapist told us that he couldn’t continue to come out to our home with no progress being made so his last day would be this coming Friday. I called the oncologist to see if it was related to his last “mini chemo” treatment but the PA didn’t think it would make him feel like that. So blood was taken with no indication of anything in the blood. Next up was an MRI to see if the lymphoma was active again….but last Friday the MRI test failed because John was not sedated enough and he couldn’t continue with the MRI – he pushed the panic button and the test ended. We were waiting to contact the oncologist (Dr. Henry) on Tuesday because of the holiday weekend to let him know that the MRI was incomplete. However, after dinner on Monday night John said that his lower abdomen was feeling “full” and went to bed early but couldn’t sleep all night because of that feeling in his lower belly. Tuesday morning he threw up. Luckily the visiting nurse came shortly after he threw up and she suggested taking John to Pennsylvania Hospital ’s emergency….which we did. After a Cat Scan it was discovered that John has an infected Gaul bladder and is now scheduled for surgery tomorrow afternoon at 12:30PM. They are going to do the surgery via laparoscope. He hasn’t eaten since Monday night and will not be able to eat until after the surgery on Friday. Due to the starvation mode he is in right now, I am beginning to get scared that his appetite will be such that when he comes home he will be eating me out of house and home….LOL. All kidding aside…please pray for his speedy recovery. Love to all of you Emily/Mom
