The purpose of this blog is to keep family and friends updated with the most recent news on Matthew. It will also document his biggest trial to date and serve as a reminder of how many people love and support him, and how much the Lord loves him when he has beat this terrible disease.

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Prafos

This morning at 8:00 Matthew had his bronchoscopy. It was a really fast procedure, lasting only about 10-15 minutes. Everything with that went well, and they said his lung tissue looks good. They sent the cultures they got from his lungs down to be tested. This afternoon Matthew also had to have his broviac tube removed because there is yeast growing in there, and it sticks to the plastic so it's really hard to get out. That was also a quick procedure, and it went smoothly.

This afternoon before my mom got to the hospital I did play that Kid Rock song for Matthew. It was funny because as soon as it started playing, his arms started twitching, his breathing got heavier, and the nurse said that his blood pressure was going up. I held his hand and told him to squeeze me if he wanted the music to stop. His hand twitched, but I told him that wasn't good enough to stop the music. As soon as I said that I felt more of a definite squeeze. When I stopped the music, he calmed down and his blood pressure went down. It was really funny and got a great reaction. It was cool to see that his personality is still there, even though he can't really show us right now. When my mom got to the hospital this afternoon, T opened up his eyes more than he ever has since he fell into the state he is currently in. He turned his head a little to look at us, and we could tell that he was seeing us. It was amazing to see that, and we're just hoping he continues to slowly come back to us.

Tomorrow for fast Sunday, we are fasting for Matthew. The doctors found yeast growing in his dialysis and pick lines, so we are praying that they can kill it before they need to take the lines out. He really needs those lines. I'm not sure what they will do if they have to remove them. They might have to find another site to put them in, or they might not be able to put them back in at all. I'm not really sure, but we're just praying they can get the yeast out.

Today T got really stylish boots called Prafos so that he won't get drop foot. The blue things right above the gray boots are to prevent blood clots in his legs.

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