Collaboration and Deductions

The first thing on my mind is how Steve is doing.  Today, he's bright, alert, and on top of all that's going on medically and doing an excellent job supervising the nurses in his collaborative way.  It's so nice to see him in action!  Also on the plus side; he's now in a quiet private room!  What an improvement over his last room.  Think noisy, irritating roommate while you are weak, exhausted and stressed out. 

The medical picture is next.  The medical team here, and including his oncologist at Virginia Mason,  are postulating that he may have an infection somewhere.   They started him on IV antibiotics this morning.  High on the suspicion list is his bile duct or the area of the stent.  So he's getting an abdominal CT scan this afternoon.  They ran a battery of blood test to look for disseminated intavascular cooagulation (DIC).  The results were not consistent with DIC.  I'm glad to see there is medical sleuthing happening!  

I hope this gives you all a clearer picture of what's being done even if there are no answers yet.   I do understand how not knowing is hard.