10/5: Going Home?

There's a good chance Leo will be going home tomorrow. Just in time for the weekend. Leo is getting a new type of antacid that's supposed to be easier on the gut than stuff like prevacid or pepcid and a pharmacy is already working on this. I think he's going to be back on oral diflucan now that the IV diflucan seems to have done its job. Marina said he took a few sips of milk and juice today without anything coming back through his nose, although he did cough a little. Leo is still very, very tired and sleeps a lot. This seems to be a decadron withdrawal side-effect, but it may actually be good for him to get some rest. He's got a long battle ahead of him and tomorrow his dose of decadron will decrease by another 1 to 6mg.

Something strange has been happening here at the hospital:

1. This morning Dr. Kroin told Marina not to give Leo anything to drink because, as usual, she's afraid he'll get aspirational pneumonia (i.e. stuff getting into his lungs from choking and causing infection). The infectious diseases doctor thought that was very strange.
2. In the evening, I asked whether any blood tests have been done since Sunday. After all, Leo is on IV diflucan, which sometimes causes liver toxicity. We knew this before and Dr. Hernandez, the gastroenterologist, confirmed that his albumin needs to monitored closely. No tests have been done, although one test (yesterday, I think) was canceled. There is a test scheduled for tomorrow. This is very odd: wouldn't they want to know whether his liver is being poisoned!?
3. I also asked what the results were of the skin culture the infectious diseases doctors took either Monday or Tuesday, since they wanted to find out exactly what was growing topically. Guess what? Someone canceled the culture!

So I don't know what's going on -- and neither do the poor nurses (they're just the messengers) -- but I'm waiting to open-up a can of whoopass on the resident. She told me she'd stop by several hours ago!

In fact, this whole hospital stay has been odd. Dr. Kroin seems to be conspiring against antineoplastons and has been mentioning "traditional" chemo for Leo... That antineoplastons are too hard on us. We don't know the whole story, but we don't like it one bit. And if I hear the word radiation come out of her mouth, that will be the last conversation we ever have with her, regardless what her intentions may be. I'm going to find someone here...this is ridiculous.