Rougher Day

Throughout the morning and early afternoon hours, Joy was vomiting and experienced severe diarrhea which made her feel pretty exhausted. But, she still had to swallow the typical days meds, more IV's and the ever frequent bronc. Those issues subsided later in the afternoon and she slept for two to three hours before they awakened her to start the final round of the new rejection infusion. Other than the aforementioned issues, her doctor is frankly surprised that she has tolerated this med as well as she has. Later in afternoon, she had chest and abdominal x-rays and additional tests to insure the diarrhea is not the result of a new infection. Another biopsy is planned for next week. She is resting on room air a lot but still requires O2 for exercise.

By late evening, she felt somewhat better and completed a four lap walk which is a record. Although she has done six laps total previously, this was the first time she completed this many laps during one walk. Encouraging.

I am not aware of the plan for tomorrow but hopefully she will feel well enough to walk even more.