Pete in MI
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Another helicopter flight...
Posted 9 hours ago (I just read this at 7:20am)
...last night around 12am Brian woke Carol and I up because he suctioned some blood from his trach. After we watched him clear his trach he then expelled another alarming amount of blood from his mouth and off to Children's I went.
They flew him by Life Flight this morning at 8am. His blood levels were low but didn't require a transfusion. The next blood test at Vandy showed the levels at two points lower than in Knoxville.
Everyone (the doctors) are baffled about the cause of the blood loss. They want to watch Brian for a few days hoping that if he bleeds again that he will do it here so they can see where it's coming from. They are pretty confident that it is from behind his nose where the tumors are putting pressure on some blood vessels.
This morning three members of the plastic surgery team came by as well as a cranial-facial specialist, an optomotrist, an ENT, two gastro-intestinal specialists and a witch doctor. They are going to team up if possible and try to perform several procedures at the same time if one of them elects to do surgery.
With the exception of a few 10-20 minute naps Carol, Brian and I haven't had any sleep since midnight last night. I did catch a few winks on the drive over here to Nashville which made Carol furious since I was the one driving.
We are really getting frustrated.
It's time I hit the sack. I know you guys are praying for us we really appreciate you!
Doug
Posted 9 hours ago (I just read this at 7:20am)
...last night around 12am Brian woke Carol and I up because he suctioned some blood from his trach. After we watched him clear his trach he then expelled another alarming amount of blood from his mouth and off to Children's I went.
They flew him by Life Flight this morning at 8am. His blood levels were low but didn't require a transfusion. The next blood test at Vandy showed the levels at two points lower than in Knoxville.
Everyone (the doctors) are baffled about the cause of the blood loss. They want to watch Brian for a few days hoping that if he bleeds again that he will do it here so they can see where it's coming from. They are pretty confident that it is from behind his nose where the tumors are putting pressure on some blood vessels.
This morning three members of the plastic surgery team came by as well as a cranial-facial specialist, an optomotrist, an ENT, two gastro-intestinal specialists and a witch doctor. They are going to team up if possible and try to perform several procedures at the same time if one of them elects to do surgery.
With the exception of a few 10-20 minute naps Carol, Brian and I haven't had any sleep since midnight last night. I did catch a few winks on the drive over here to Nashville which made Carol furious since I was the one driving.
We are really getting frustrated.
It's time I hit the sack. I know you guys are praying for us we really appreciate you!
Doug
