Update

First, let me apologize for taking such an extended break between updates. At times I thought of posting, but there is a fine line between relevant updates to hundreds of blog following friends and family and documenting someone elses life day by day - when it isn't my life to broadcast and most days is very uneventful.

Since I last posted, much has happened.

His strength has been slowly zapped. Through the combination of lack of exercise, endless fatigue, the steroids (which "eat" muscle) that he's taking because of the cancer; he has progressed from walking on his own, to casually using a cane, to needing a cane, to using a walker. He needs a lot of help from others for day to day tasks that healthy people take so easily for granted.

The bigger news:

As I type John is back in the hospital for a second time in just over 2 weeks. A few weeks ago we noticed some swelling on the side of his head near his incision. He went in, they did some scans and determined no surgery was going to be needed and that some antibiotics would clear up the infection. A day later he went home and the drugs were being administered by Caren. All seemed good.

Fast-forward to last night, 6pm. His breathing of late has been very labored and after a discussion he was brought down to the ER to be evaluated. It was found that his O2 levels were in the low 80's (should be 95% or up), his heart beat was irregular, he was running a 103 degree fever, and he has pneumonia. They sedated and intubated him and were able to clean out a lot of the fluid in his lungs. They began giving him some very strong antibiotics that are to fix most of those issues - if pneumonia is the cause of all of them. As for a correlation between the infection and pneumonia, early expert medical options are of the belief that these are unrelated.

This morning he is stable and in much better condition then he was 12 hours ago. His temperature is gone and they've turned down his oxygen - all good signs of healing.

I will post more as I know.

As always, thanks for your continued support and prayers.

- Adam