Update - Ups and downs

Well we are still in the hospital and our little cowboy is in a lot of stomach pain and very nauseated.  Last night he made the comment “I can’t get any rest”.  They tried to add Adavan to his medicines but that made him so dizzy he could barely stand on his own and up till now he insists on getting himself up and down when he feels the urge to go to the bathroom (some urges do not process anything).  He is urinating some but not normal amounts.  Sunday night he vomited old and new blood and they are not sure exactly why just that he has a blood leak somewhere internal. He has been pretty swollen and what they originally thought was fluid built up in his sac they now believe is the infection from the abscess on his colon spreading.  One of the antibiotics he was on for this bacterial infection stopped working after just a few days so they brought in Infectious Disease doctors and have started him on a new antibiotic.  Because of his delicate state they are limited to what they can administer and do for/to him.  Typically they would go in and try and drain the sores/fluid but in Tynan’s case they cannot so he has to just endure the pain/discomfort caused.

He has been more alert the last few days but is in a lot of pain and discomfort. He sips on drinks when he’s awake and we can get him to and he requested and was able to eat some fruit yesterday so he finally got some food after over a week.  Unfortunately, because of the fungus infection still present they cannot give him intravenous nutrition as they said that would feed the infection and make it spread faster.

His blood pressure is again fluctuating and they want to put a patch back on him for this to keep it down – we however have mixed feelings about this because of the low blood pressures he experienced last week.

He will get platelets today.  And we were just told that his potassium is so low that it could cause his heart to stop and the only way to correct that is to push fluids and they can not do that because he will retain fluids and the fluids can get in his lungs and be very painful. 

He is still on this ride and is not giving up.

Thank you all for the continued show of support and prayers.