Number Nine

For the ninth time in a little over a year, Joy is back in the hospital, this time for the intense back pain issues again. The IV injections of narcotics helped last night but she can't stay on those addictive and potentially harmful drugs forever.

If these doctors are unable to determine a viable solution, then we will head south. I guess we are so accustomed to speedy resolution, minimal delays in testing procedures and efficient scheduling for doctor appointments that we are expecting to much. But then again, I don't think so. Granted, Joy has had numerous post-transplant issues like so many others that we know but it was nothing Duke had done wrong, it was merely these patients bodies responding differently to the tremendous side effects of lung transplantation. But in the final analysis, we are spoiled not to have the diagnostics and world class doctors at our immediate disposal.

But.............................we will see.