Monday, June 11, 2007

No Release

He has dialysis from 2-6.

Neal spoke with the doctors this morning and they are hoping to do a fistulagram during this hospital stay. My understand is they shoot dye up through his fistula and take pictures to see if there are any blockages. He had this done in March. If anyone remembers, this is what gave him the giant bruise on his arm. His fistula is not maturing fast enough to be used for dialysis. It will come to a point where he will need to have a different surgery to place another dialysis port if his fistula is not working. Given that the surgery is not yet scheduled I would imagine he may be staying a couple of more nights. He is in Rhodes 908. He is really sick of being in the hospital, so visitors are welcome. If you can get him moving around while you are there, that is even better. I will post once we have a confirmation on dialysis times today.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

are there any books, magazines, or games that neal might like to help keep him a bit occupied so that he does not get bored?

Anonymous said...

HANG IN THERE NEAL PLEASE KEEP GETTING UP AND WALKING THE HALLS AND USING YOUR BREATHING MACHINE WE WANT TYOU HEALTH FOR YOUR SURGERIES....GARY