ANOTHER WEEK'S END

10:50AM


Ron had another good night. He seemed rested this morning. I took a break and went back to the hotel last night. I ordered his breakfast and he ate relatively well. He was a bit achy today but it is to be expected. His feet are getting puffy so he will be starting hemodialysis today to try and remove some fluid.

We received the "ok" to decorate his room for Christmas....they did not have to tell us twice..my mother in law and I made the trip to Wal-Mart and brought him a few things to liven up his room and give it the feel of Christmas. He has a small Christmas tree...the Holy Family and decorations around his cork board on the wall....with red bows and all the Christmas cards we have received from friends and family. It turned out very nice...all the nurses and doctors really like it. His mom also bought him a red car with santa and his reindeer...when you press the button...it bounces up and down ...has lights on the bottom and plays "Low-Ri-Der".....it is quite hilarious.

Dr. Smith came by to fill us in on their weekly meeting. They have decided to go ahead and run another treatment of the plasma pherises ....the process where they remove his plasma and the antibodies ...it will run another series of 5 treatments for seven days. One of the kidney doctors indicated it can sometimes take a month long of treatments before they can get the antibodies to start getting used to the organ which is what the objective is. Fortunately, this is a very gentle treatment to his body ....he actually feels better after the treatements...which is a good thing.
We also hope to get back the results of his biopsy later today. We generally do not find out anything until late afternoon the following day. Some of them we may not know for a couple of days. He is on an antibiotic right now as they wait for blood cultures to come back since he did run a fever a few nights ago...we just want to make sure if anything was brewing ...we caught it in time.

Praise God....we are near the end of another week of progress...I am so proud of Ron and everything he has overcome up to this point. I can't imagine what it must be like to go through all this ...and wake up after a week of being completely out ....to find that things did not go completely as we had hoped....and yet, he still finds the will to keep fighting and keep perservering....it is incredible and truly the work of the Lord.

"When a believing person prays, great things happen". James 5:16