The events of this week have been crazy. Lots of frustration and confusion. Josh had another x-ray done yesterday. Come to find out Josh does have pneumonia. The fluid that is built up around the pleura was blocking the view of the lungs and when they drained off what they did on Sunday then yesterdays x-ray showed a little of the lungs and the doctors said it looked like there was fluid in the sacs of his lungs which means pneumonia....
Today when the doc came in the new info is now NO pneumonia! Josh doesn't have any symptoms of infection. No fever, no increase white count, no cough.... looking at the x-ray again they think there is just so much fluid still in there that it's putting pressure against the lungs and that may be why it looked like pneumonia. UGH! We are all home now. Josh received 2 units of blood yesterday and is feeling pretty good. He does still have some tightness in the chest. The plan at this point is to call Josh's doctor when he starts to get worse again and then the doc will set up a appointment with radiology and we'll go in and they'll tap....withdraw more fluid. At some point depending on how often he has to go in for a tap he will have to have surgery. During the surgery they would drain all of the fluid (right now they can only drain about a litre being safe and not a lot of pain). They will "ruff" up the pleura so it will stick to the chest wall. When that happens fluid can't accumulate there. This procedure is about 80-85% effective. Just like with every tap that is done there is always risk with surgery. When it comes down to it, it's all going to depend on how fast fluid is accumulating. Pray for HEALING! Pray that this Sutent (chemo) Josh is on will work overtime and God will use it to take away the cancer!

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