Jonathan's temp has stayed below 100 since mid-day yesterday. Praise the Lord! He does have some white blood cells now, but what the oncologists warned about seems to be happening. His pain level is increasing because as your immune system fights infection it causes inflammation. His poor belly was already significantly distended because of how inflamed his intestines are from the c diff infection. So the immune response is actually making that worse. They've put him on morphine and are increasing the dose because he's just in so much pain.
So while he's still miserable and suffering from vomit and diarrhea, we know that in the next day or two he should finally start healing and feeling better. ICU docs still don't like his breathing rate and tried a cpap machine overnight but it didn't help. The theory was that he was breathing fast to cool off from fever but now they think he's breathing very shallow and fast to avoid his diaphragm from pushing too hard on his painful, swollen belly. Continue to pray for healing and recovery for him. Pray his white blood cells grow quickly and relieve his suffering. To God be the glory!
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