Déjà vu

So we are back to square one with T's pain level. The cancer has come back with a vengeance and is killing him in pain. He is back on his Morphine drip and Ativan to try and quell his suffering, but he is still pretty bad. He just kind of lays in bed pretty unresponsive. He'll grunt in acknowledgement sometimes when someone talks to him, but his throat is sore from the breathing tube. If this chemo that he finished today doesn't help his pain, we can see him being stuck here for three weeks until the next round. We should get the results from his marrow sample within a week, so that will tell us more about what is happening to him. Dad said that modern chemo therapy is really good because they can write recipes specific to the kind of cancer a patient has. That's comforting to me. We hope that this last round of chemo combined with everyone's fasts and prayers will work to bring down his pain enough for him to come home until his next chemo treatment.

Okay so I have a correction to yesterday's post...I guess Matthew didn't have the surgery to have his port line moved. He went in to have his MRI, but they didn't do the surgery because he was bleeding too much. They might not even perform that surgery anymore because they're not sure if it's causing any damage yet. He bled so much yesterday that they needed to give him two units of blood and two units of platelets. He is resting comfortably now for the first time all week. Let's hope he gets better sooner than later.

Remember the picture like this from two days ago? Well I thought my dad did that to him, but Matthew did that to himself. haha It's nice that he never loses his sense of humor.

David and Joanna Layton with T:

Today the nurses brought him the big bear, and Joanna Layton brought him the nurse bear. I think the nurse one is really cute.

Adam Tieman and Dad