Sept 7

Hello again. Mark had a little bit of a rough night. He didn't sleep well. Angie stayed the night with him. He tossed and turned a lot and ran fever. They continued the Cipro for his antibiotics. He had some anemia this morning and they redrew the blood to make sure it was true since his count fell so much. We're waiting to hear on that. He is getting potassium, magnesium and sodium infusions today along with his usual IV fluids since his electrolyes were abnormal. He isn't eating or drinking anything and his abdomen is really distended.

He is having some pain still. They have left in the spinal blocks (he has 2 of these) to control the pain and he also has the PCA pump.

He got up and took a pretty long walk in the hall with Matt and I this morning. He was very weak and slow, but steady and endured. He is psyching himself up for another walk now. It takes some doing.

We video conferenced with the kids yesteday. It was great for me. I was really missing the kids and I got my kid fill. I loved seeing all of them and wanted to hug them all so bad.

Thanks to the Finance Department for the HUGE basket of goodies both here and to our home in Auburn. That was so nice of you guys. It was very heavy. Angie carried it over to Mark's room. He was surprised to see it.

I will try to keep you updated. It seems to be slow progress here, but Mark is hanging in there. Keep up the prayers. God bless!!!