Hard Day

(Teri writing)

This has been a painful day.  The doctors all looked at the scans.....the neurosurgeon, the infectiious disease doctor, and the oncologist......and they all concurred that his staph infection is so bad, that they would normally do surgery to help clear out the infection because the anitbiotics alone can't clear it......but they will not do the surgery, because they found that the tumors in the brain were worse, and that it would be of no benefit to put him through a very hard surgery, with a long recovery, and having his remaining time spent in pain trying to recover from the surgery.  Therefore, they want to keep him as comfortable as possible and let him go ahead into in-home hospice care.  He is currently getting a very strong pain medication every 2 hours, and hospice will have access to all of the pain medication he will need.  They will deliver the bed and all of the equipment Wednesday morning, and will transport him home by ambulance in the afternoon.  Thank all of you for your prayers for him!