Back in ICU

Update 10:34 PM - Jack has some kind of infection. It could be from earlier when he was nauseous (some of it could have gone in his lungs). Right now it is not clear. Jack's lactic acid level is very high so they are monitoring it. If it gets too high the medication they have him on for his blood pressure will stop working. Right now the blood pressure medication is the only thing keeping him somewhat stable. They still have the jugular line to put back in. His heart rate was still pretty high but they have it more under control. They decided that his blood oxygen levels were so low that they needed to put him 100% on the respirator. Obviously, his cancer treatment is on hold until he is stable for a longer period of time. As I said, for now the doctors still are not certain of the root cause of Jack's breathing issues this afternoon but he is as sick as he has been since he came to the hospital.

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Update 5:12 PM - Jack has been moved back to the Intensive Care Unit. His headache has stayed even with the dose of morphine and he then he began having trouble breathing. The doctors actually gave him medicine to help get the morphine out of his system because they thought there might be a chance it was contributing to his breathing issue.

They believe that Jack may have another infection but I do not have any specifics right now. They are probably going to have to intubate Jack again and put him on the respirator. Fran and Jacks kids are in his ICU are outside his room right now.

If you were planning on coming to visit today or tomorrow I would wait to see if he stabilizes first. I will update everyone when we know more in the morning.

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2:00 PM

We visited Jack this morning to bring him a donut and coffee. The nurse was in the middle of trying to feed him his breakfast. He had a few bites but really wasn't interested in it.

Overall it has not be a good day as Jack has been complaining about a severe headache. This is this really the first time that he has said anything about real pain before so it got us a little nervous. The doctors are going to give him a small dose of morphine to help with the pain but they want to limit it so that it doesn't impact his lucidity. His ability to talk and interact is how they have been tracking his progress since the brain surgery a few weeks ago.

His overly hydrated still which will take awhile to go away. They continue to help with Lasix pills.

The alternate day schedule for Campath with will continue.

I will provide more detail later today.