Sept 5

Good afternoon. Mark is holding his own today. His urine is looking infected. He still has the catheter in, but there is question whether or not they actually drew the sample to test for infection, we've gotten conflicting answers and can't seem to get any action as far as proceding forward. There haven't been anymore temperatures. Mark's saturations dropped into the 80s and they had to put him back on oxygen.

The attending physician came by and made rounds. They are going to give Mark some additional medicine to help with the abdominal cramping. They did a lot of tugging and pulling to fix the large ventral hernia that Mark had from his previous surgery and there was a lot of scar tissue that they had to dissect through to do this surgery, so a lot of reason to hurt. He is cut the entire length of his abdomen again.

Matt and Angie have sat with Mark and taken care of him from mid morning through this afternoon. I was totally beat and went to the Family House for food, rest and a shower. It was nice.

We are hanging out in Mark's room watching football. Mark was determined to watch the Oklahoma game, but I really think he'll be too much in and out of it to remember. His parents are taping the game for him, so we can watch it again later (provided they win).

Once again, thanks to all of you who have been so supportive. I can't tell you how much it helps us to get through this. Keep up the prayers. God bless!!!!