Journal

Thursday, May 1, 2008 7:57 AM CDT

Well it is May... the weather has not allowed us to plant any corn yet, but to be honest, I don't think Rob would have been able to spend a day on the tractor anyway.
The past couple of weeks has certainly brought back many memories of sitting in waiting rooms, waiting on results, etc. Long story short... when Rob began shipping out pigs this turn and found out that he was extremely fatigued... had to rest before he could drive home, etc. His blood pressure is now dropping low, 101/55, which prompted him to have a treadmill stress test, chest xray, and blood work-up. On Monday of this week we met with the doctor for results... chest xray shows a slightly enlarged heart; stress test showed a normal EKG, but the heart scans done with the stress test show that he has "multiple segmental reversible defects"... well see the cardiologist on Friday to more fully understand what this means... probably going to need to have a heart cath done. The big surprise was in the blood work... Rob was extremely anemic... close to transfusion level... been quite a while since I've thought about those numbers... anyway, he had a colonoscopy completed yesterday, had some polyps removed which were hopefully the source of blood loss leaving him with limited red blood cells. The polyps were of course sent to lab for a biopsy, we'll get those results next week, but the rest of his colon looked good with the exception of a couple of spots of diverticulosis. He also got a shot of epogen to help his blood recover.
So, hopefully, he is going to start feeling better very soon... we'll see the cardiologist to determine what we need to take care of with his heart and recheck his blood work next week to see if his red count has recovered.
I do believe the stress of the past several years has certainly caught up with us... hopefully we can get these things resolved and Rob will be going strong once again...
So, bring on some sunny, dry weather... we need to get crops in the ground and that will relieve a whole bunch of stress...
I have 13 days of school left, and will work one week after that... then I'm home for the summer... and sooooo ready to float in the pool... hopefully some warm weather will come our way so I can get the pool opened up.

Spence buddy... have thought about you an extra lot this week while hanging out in the hospital... miss you more and more... keep sending us strength for each and every day... I have seen a couple of butterflies in the yard... thanks!

Thanks to all for continuing to check on us!

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Cameron MO 64429

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