March 26th

Hi all!

Thanks for hanging in there with us. They got us again...Cedars DOES NOT have a bed for Jerry. We are all (drs too) not happy with this situation but have decided to cut our losses. We are all officially so OVER going to Cedars Sinai!!!

New plan:

Stay at Mission.

Today, get Jerry's oxygen concentration up so that he can just use the nosepiece since right now he's using the mouthpiece 24/7 and no one could do the procedure with him that way as they have to go thru his mouth!!! This involves:

1. breathing treatments to expand his lungs.

2. percussion treatments (a machine pounds on his back) to help rid the lungs of fluid.

3. a new CT scan with contrast so they can see exactly what they are doing.

4. sitting up in bed or a chair as often as possible

Tomorrow: continue the above 4 things then , wait til you hear.........

ERCP procedure here at Mission to try to remove the pancreatic stone at 6 pm TUESDAY 3/27.

The only downside to all this is that here they can't do the sonic exploding of the stone which they could have done at Cedars. So they'll have to maneuver it out! If it doesn't work, they next thing to try is real surgery....open him up and remove it surgically. Let's all pray for the former.

Thanks for being there for us. Will be in touch. email us or call my cell anytime!

Love,

Betty Lou