Probable Cause

Matt getting his blood in his temporary room.

The employees working hard taking everything out of all the rooms to clean them!

Probable cause for Matt's bleeding this weekend is an infection in his incision. He has one spot that was bleeding and they believe that might be the cause.

Matt is resting comfortable up on third floor getting his blood transfusion. They said they should

have the second floor all disinfected and we can move back there this evening. What a mess with moving patients all over the place.

Please continue to pray for Matt and also if you could pray for my Friend Peggy's daughter, Katie is having a lot of medical problems with the shunt in her head and the drainage in her stomach. We pray they figure out the problem and the pain in Katie's head and stomach go away!

Blood Needed

Dr. Sugarbaker said Matt will need two pints of blood. His red count cell was down and he looks like a ghost so he is hoping a couple pints of blood will pick him up and maybe tomorrow we can go home!!

The hospital has some kind of flue bug going around here. We are taking every precaution for Matt not to get it. There are a lot of patients and staff that have it on the floor. So they moved everyone up to third floor while they disinfect all the rooms. So far Matt has been doing a good job of washing his hands.

Thank you

Matt's Nurses

Matt had Rose for a nurse for many nights

So far today Matt has been doing better. He has not vomited at all and his bleeding problem seemed to has gotten better. He is afraid to eat to much so he will not have to run to the

bathroom to often.

Lots of Snow!

Here are a few pictures of a outside sitting room of the hospital! Matt watched the pick up Truck with their plow clean the busy streets. They don't have the proper truck to plow with. They also don't have snow blowers. It took 8 workers in the hospital as a group to go out and shovel all the sidewalks around the hospital. We watched out the window at all the cars getting stuck on the roads!! they say the ended up with 24" to 30" of snow in the Washington DC area.

Matt figures next year for his one year check up he can bring his truck with the plow and a snow blower so he can make lots of money while he is out here.

Matt is feeling better and his bathroom visits are going better.

Thank you for your continued prayers!

Complication from Surgery

Matt started bleeding from his rectum last night. The nurse got the on call doctor to check Matt out. He said we would watch him for awhile. Matt again went to the bathroom and it was blood. They called in another surgical doctor to look at Matt. She gave him a physical exam, While she was here he started to vomit. They took some blood to for tests. Blood test came back and so

far all seems good.

Matt continued through the night to go to the bathroom and have blood. Dr. Sugarbaker came to see him. They said no going home today. He still is going blood but he hasn't vomited today. They said Matt can continue to eat regular food and drink but not to eat a lot at one time. They want him to graze through out the day.

Please help to pray for Matt to get over whatever is going on inside of him.

Off another Machine!

Matt has been feeling pretty good. He has a pain in his right side once in a while and had a few dizzy spells. He has a hard time sleeping at nights. He is up every few hours. He goes for walks and has been sitting in the room at the end of the hall watching all the snow here in Washington DC. They are expecting up to possible 30" in some areas. Matt laughs at the TV news reports teaching people how to shovel.

They took off his pain pump so if he needs something for pain he can have it in pill form.

Dr. Sugarbaker thought he might let him go Monday. Matt is working on Sunday to leave!!

Matt's pathology report came back. His tumor marker test before surgery was 4.7. Dr. Sugarbaker feels he got everything out!!

Thank you for all your continued prayers for Matt on this journey!

Great News!!

Matt enjoying his first soft food breakfast!!!

Dr. Luigi came in this morning and checked on Matt. Matt tolerated full liquids yesterday so they are advancing him to soft foods today. While Dr. Luigi was visiting breakfast came with oatmeal! Matt turned his nose up at it. The doctor said soft food would start at noon today but if he wanted

better food "Mom" could run down to the cafeteria and get some eggs. The doctor left and I went

down to the cafeteria and got eggs and potatoes and chocolate milk!! The nurse told him to enjoy and she would be in with her fork to enjoy with him.

At 10:00 Dr. Sugarbaker will be in to talk with us about his pathology report. If all goes well we

can go home tomorrow.

One problem.....Brian is snowed in at Gaithersburg, 45 minutes away and 30" of snow are due here starting at 10:00 today and tomorrow. Where do we go???

Matt and I decided if Dad can not come pick us up we will go to the hospital hotel. Matt said anything is better than in the hospital!!!

Thank you for all your continued thoughts and prayers!