Today brought along many more questions and a day of waiting. Dale was scheduled for his colonoscopy at 7:15 AM and had to wait until 11:00 AM to finally get in. Some scheduling issue. Did not set the day off well. Next, when the doctor told what he found in the colon, it went down hill from there. Not just the "normal" polyps but some unusual ones in many places. He took many for biopsy so we wait for answers late next week.
Dale needed to have his port re-dressed so we headed to 2nd floor clinics we always go to at Huntsman. There they also drew blood labs and as the nurse discussed the lab results and possible reasons for the colon issues, she stopped and looked more carefully at Dale and suggested he may have a blood clot around the port. She sent us to ultra-sound at University (where we happened to meet Dale's nephew who works there, and a friend from Dale's work) to check on the central port lines Dale has in his chest. They have been there since August for access to chemotherapy, blood draws, and all the drip lines he needs during therapy. Sure enough, the technician verified the blood clots.
Are you kidding me? What next? Poor guy. What that means: two weeks of blood thinner injection twice a day, then ultra-sound again. This may or may not slow down the bone marrow transplant process. Don't know that yet. We still go tomorrow for all the tests for BMT and meet with them next week. Perhaps biopsies will be complete by then and we will know more. Sure am glad for the astute nurse that noticed.
P.S. In cleaning up after grandkids, one "o is for olive" toy was found. Yahoo! I might do that again, so they will have to come back to claim it.
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