Easter

Dad spent the weekend at Abington hospital, where the doctors have been trying to figure out the source and type of this latest infection. There's been a lot of testing and waiting for results. Still no word on Dad's protein levels from a couple of weeks ago; he's had blood transfusions as well as blood taken to do cultures to identify the nature of the infection. MRI, X-ray, ultrasound, PETscan. The doctors are still uncertain of what has been causing the fevers, sweats and fatigue, as well as the acute pain in his jaw and ear.

The most urgent issue at this point is the discovery via MRI of some lesions on Dad's liver and kidneys. There is a biopsy scheduled for 4 PM today. Mom says that there were some lesions in the area previously, and she has urged the doctors at Abington to get in touch with Stadtmauer down at Penn. She asks that we pray for this situation, that the chemo would continue to work, that advance of the myeloma would be stopped, and that these lesions, whatever they are, would be healed. She also asks that we pray that the communication between the doctors at Abington and those at Penn would be productive and unhampered by ego, and that their diagnosis and prescriptions would be accurate and effective.