Mark was in the hospital last night. He had some pain. Actually, he had quite a bit of pain. He said that his liver felt like it was on fire. But his chief complaint was the severe head to toe itching he gets sometimes. He took the maximum dosage of everything he's allowed to take at home, and nothing was cutting it at all so about 8:00 I took him in. I went home to be with the kids (and, to be quite honest, to sleep). We planned for Jason to just swing by and pick him up on his way home from work about 2 a.m. Around 10:00, though, I was just finishing cleaning up the kitchen and was about to go to bed when I got a call from Adam. Mark was about ready to go home. I guess they had given him a shot of something new called Vistaril. It worked really well. And quickly! He was out in less than three hours.
The health team conference call was indefinitely postponed. Adam couldn't get any of the doctors involved to reply with a specific time that they would be available. He seemed a little discouraged about that but said that he's going to keep trying. Chances are, we won't all be able to talk together, but he's going to talk to each of them and then present their ideas to us for our approval. I don't know that this is going to solve anything, per se, but it can only be good to have everyone on the same page.
Tonight we are supposed to go out to celebrate Mark's birthday. He has a gift certificate to Golden Valley that he got for doing some work on somebody's computer. I have free tickets to see Pride and Prejudice at GFU. And we have free babysitting (Mark A. and Joellen). Hard to beat that! But right now we have only 2 1/2 hours until we need to leave, and he is beyond exhausted. He's been sleeping nearly all day. I'm still hoping that he will suddenly wake up and feel up to going out on the town, but I know better than to get too terribly excited about the possibility. I guess we'll just play it by ear.
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