The one about Jay really needing your prayers!

Well, I talked with Sheila today, and Jay took a turn for the worse today. When we talk about 3:00 pm today Jay was in ICU unconscious and on a ventilator. They did a Bronchial Scope to him today and he should get the ventilator and breathing tube out tomorrow, but they would wait and see. The Dr. said the procedure went fine. They think three thing might have happened....
1) pneumonia
2) Fluid in his lungs due to renal failure
3) Or he could caugh so hard and the burkkitts (sp?) Lymphoma was getting in his lungs.

They sent the fluids off for testing.

Jay right now is in ICU and is only allowed to be visited by Sheila or anyone for one 15 mins at a time. The Dr. and Sheila agree that that is probably very good, because Jay has not gotten too much sleep in a while.

They did a phoresis (sp?) test that filtered out the Whit Blood Cell Count and the Dr. felt good about it...(but I don't know why)

They can't give him any chemo right now, because they have got to get his White Blood Cell count down to normal before chemo or his Kidneys would die on him. A normal White Blood cell count is 4,000 and as of this afternoon Jay's white blood Cell count was 150,000.

One good thing is that his kidneys seemed to be making urine, so they are not totally shot and might bounce back from all of this, but they still have him on Dialysis to help his kidneys function properly.

They made the decision to have this proceed done kind of fast, but they had to make it fast. He was coughing so bad that he was not being able to breath even with a Oxygen mask.

His platelets count was very low 15. and They also thin that he might have hemorrhaged his lungs from coughing so hard, and then when his plateletes count was so low that the burkkitts Lymphoma would go in and cover up the hurt spot instead of the plateletes.

He has been having severe nose bleeds to top it al off. The Dr. was amazed at how fast the Lymphoma was coming back...His Cretan (sp?) level(kidney something), WBC count, and BUN # (kidney something) were all way messed up.

Sheila, said that the Dr. was giving lots of his time with Jay and doing the best he could for him right now.

Sheila said it is a difficult time right now, but his Spirits are up! it is al amazing, but Jay (and Sheila) are scared. Jay should have a hard time talking for a few days due to the O2 mask, and the breathing tube they will hopefully take out tomorrow.

Sheila has also, told me and my parents that we might want to come and see Jay on an airplane, because this s the worse that she has seen him since all of this happened.

so...............Tiffany and I will go see her parents tomorrow in Lovington and have Christmas with them, and then Wednesday we will all be traveling up to see Jay via VERY expensive airplane flights. (Thank you to Tiffany who spent the entire afternoon and evening booking flights for a family who just could not handle all the stress right now.

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We opened up presents with my grandmother and family tonight, and it was great as always even with Jay and Sheila hovering over all our thoughts and conversations the entire night.

I am not sure when we will be back, from seeing Jay. I thin that Tiffany and I will come back in about a week, unless we need to stay there longer. And I am not sure about my Momma and Daddy, they could be up there for a while. And who knows maybe after they stabilize him that I can still be used for a bone marrow transplant?


What ever the way, or what ever the time.........one thing is for sure.........................Jay needs your prayers now more than every, and I can not tell you how much they mean to us! Love you all and God bless!


Oh and yes I realize that my spelling is horrible and such, but I am very sick (went to get a Marcela shot and a Z-Pack, and cough syrup today, and I think my fever broke while we were opening up presents. So, I am extremely tired, but I just had to let you all know about Jay, and ask you all to be praying for him! Thank you soooooo much!

KUTPs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!