Sunday-Happy Valentine's Day. Unfortunately it is not so happy for us. Shortly after I posted last night's entry, Cody had a bout of diarrhea that was all blood. So around 10 pm, off we go to Sloan. He was really scared after seeing all the blood, understandably so and was very upset. He must be reading online because all he kept saying was "Did I relapse?" The drs were concerned that maybe he needed blood and/or platelets. Once here it was determined that his counts were all good, thank goodness. We knew were staying and got up to the floor around 2:30 a.m. We settled in and today the questions began. It was concluded today that we will be in touch with the gastro team tomorrow. We will figure out a plan then. It is either GVHD, the rejection disease and needs to be treated more aggressively than what we are doing now. Or something else. The dr today seems to think that we will need a colonoscopy or the pills that you swallow that are cameras to determine the cause of the blood. Today things have quieted down. Not as much blood and he is not allowed to eat. That is very difficult as he is on more steroids and the main side effect of the steroids is eating. Cody is not a happy camper. He is getting a course of antibiotics too just in case. Thank goodness there is no fever.
We had such a good day yesterday. There was a game today too that we had wanted to go to so thank goodness we chose yesterday's. We brought them good luck yesterday but they lost today.
Casey was able to have a weekend pass so Nicole drove to the base and they spent the weekend together. He called us a few times and seemed to enjoy his weekend off. His next adventure takes him to the woods for 10 days. Stay strong, my boy!
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