Disappointed doesn’t even come close to covering it, actually.
Yesterday was supposed to be a wonderful day – one I’ve been looking forward to for nearly two weeks. A day of graduation from rehabilitation. A day of homecoming. A day when life would get back to normal for a while.
What yesterday turned out to be was none of those things.
I was able to check out of rehab and have a beautiful lunch with my wife (the good part). On our way home, I had to go to an appointment at OHSU to get my stitches out and do a routine post operation checkup for the neurosurgeon and my infectious disease docs. During that visit they found my heart racing, a moderate fever, high blood pressure, and a little redness around my incision. After pulling the whole team of specialists together they decided that they couldn’t let me continue home but instead admitted me immediately to oncology.
Now, instead of being home with my family like I’ve been looking forward to and working hard towards, I’m back in a hospital bed on the oncology floor at OHSU while they figure out if lymphoma is causing this, there is a new infection, or something else going on. Most likely what will happen is that they won’t get a clear answer from any of these new tests (blood, MRI, X-Ray, etc.). In that case, we may start chemo early.
Although I’m disappointed that I’m not home, I’m glad to be in such good hands that will get to the bottom of this and get me the proper treatment. Please be praying for that to happen.
–Captain Seth
