Sam is Home

Sam was finally released from the hospital late this afternoon.  Jack was so excited to see his dad!  

Happy Game Day!

Sam's feeling better today.  For real this time.  I brought him a gator shirt from home to help make him feel a little more normal.  His doctors are concerned with his kidneys since some numbers came back "squirelly" so, of course, they're keeping him around for more tests.  They also told him that now would be a great time to go find a farm animal and an altar.

Happy game day Gator Nation!  And congratulations to Daniel and Molly who will be tying the knot later today.  We still can't believe we have to miss it.

  

*Friday Update*

Well, I suppose I spoke too soon.  Sam's temperature spiked up to 102 late this morning, followed by another terrible headache and more vomiting.  They took more blood cultures, and hopefully we'll have some answers this weekend.  His doctor said if all goes well the earliest he will be released is Sunday.  I'll keep you posted.

Doing Better

Sam has been taken out of isolation and most of the iv medicine has been stopped.  He looks so much better, and even had a few spoons of chicken noodle soup last night, though berry flavored Ensure still makes up a large part of his diet.  The doctors have mentioned a release date as early as Saturday. Thank you everyone for your emails, posts, messages and phone calls.  It means so much to hear from friends and family when you're confined to your hospital bed.

Sam's in the hospital

Sam was admitted into Indian River Medical Center early Tuesday morning.  He was vomiting and had a debilitating headache.  He was diagnosed with viral meningitis and shingles after a ct scan, some blood work and a spinal tap.  The doctors currently have him in an isolation room.  He is doing much better today.  Yesterday was terrible.  I've never seen my husband so sick.  For all you AGRs out there he likens it to the hangover from Founders' Day at Touchdown Terrace.  Times ten.  Don't worry about Jack and me.  We are healthy and doing well.  Just waiting for Sam to get better and come home.       

Jack's First Haircut

Sam sat for his first round of new treatment on Wednesday.  He's getting a gemcitabine, rituximab, oxaliplatin combination (GROC) that's administered in Dr. McGarry's office over the course of 9 hours.  This type of chemo involves less drugs but a higher dose of chemicals.  His large B-cell Hodgkin's lymphoma has transformed into a T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma so hopefully this treatment will be more effective.  It was a very long day, but everything went well.  Sam has decided to work through it this time, taking off a couple days to recoup in between treatments.  He ended up getting that sales job, but in the end, decided to turn it down to focus on getting better.  It was definitely a huge disappointment, but we have faith that something else will come along.

Here's a little clip from Jack's first haircut.  Hope everyone has a great week.

    

Happy Game Day!

Go Gators!