Hospital Day 5

Unfortunately, this is still Donna writing. We had hoped for Calvin to be home by now, but it didn't happen. Right now he is scheduled to be discharged to come home tomorrow, Wednesday. At noon today he had a vena caval filter inserted through his jugular vein and deposited in his inferior vena cava. That went very well, and because of the procedure he has been confined to bedrest, and will be through the night. With that in place the coumadin, his blood thinner medicine, has been decreased to half the amount he was taking. He has had some more problems with the catheter clogging this afternoon, but hopefully they are resolved. He was taken off the morphine pump this afternoon, and is back on Oxycontin and Oxycodone again. Which also means he got to get rid of that annoying CO2 monitor line that has been in his nostrils these past few days. His pain is still being kept under control. We finally finished watching the "Hatari" video this afternoon, and this evening we played a lousy game of Phase 10 (Calvin won). So this should be the last time you read Calvin's blog written by me. Unless Calvin just doesn't feel up to it tomorrow, then I will post an update to let you know the latest and that hopefully he is back home.