New developments...

We appreciate continued prayers for wisdom for the doctors - it is apparent that the doctors have, indeed, been thinking outside of the box and following their intuition, which we know can certainly be influenced by the Lord! Also please pray for encouragement for Sandy, as she had to miss Katie's baby shower this morning and is most likely going to miss a once-a-year extended family gathering tomorrow.

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Here is some info from Rod regarding Sandy's past few days:

While undergoing routine blood testing on the off week for chemo on Thursday, her temperature began climbing, as it has for several days, generally in the afternoons and evenings.  Dr. Moore decided to bypass the ER and send her directly to Admissions at St. Francis.  She was admitted and sent to a room on the 7th Floor.  Good luck finding the room as various elevators are closed due to some remodeling in the hospital. 

Because of the notation in the CT scan on Tuesday that the duct system in the left lobe of the liver was dilated, it was suspected that the lobe was still producing bile rather than withering because of the blocked left bile duct and that some infection had taken up residence in the left lobe.  Yesterday afternoon late, a radiologist inserted a needle into the top of the left lobe of the liver to drain the suspected fluid accumulation and to determine whether or not the fluid contained an infection.  The result was that the fluid was indeed harboring an infection, which probably accounted for the fever and the pain in the right side with deep breaths.  The pain stopped upon the completion of the fluid withdrawal.

Although it was initially decided that she would be dismissed from the hospital today and return on Tuesday to have a percutaneous drain placed into the left lobe of the liver, her fever began climbing again this morning, along with high pulse rate.  The decision was made to keep her in the hospital and to have the radiologist insert the percutaneous drain sometime late Saturday.  The exact procedure to be performed may depend on whether the drain can be inserted through the left bile duct or only into the left lobe.