Post procedure

(Written by Lisa): Jon is back in his room after having his brochoscopy. He's quite sleepy from the meds, and he has to wait a while before he can have anything to eat or drink because they numbed up his throat to eliminate his gag reflex. Last time he had this procedure, it took a couple of hours to wear off.

I talked with one of Jon's docs this morning, and their feeling is that he has fungal pneumonia from the way things look on the CT scan. We are not going to find anything out for several days - maybe Tuesday. There are a number of tests and cultures that have to be done on the cells they collected, so we wait...again. Jon had a fever last night, but he did not have one this morning! He is still being treated with a number of antibiotics, and he's on one antifungal too.

The best case would be for this to be a bacterial pneumonia, as that is very easy to treat. Fungal is still treatable, but it takes a long time to completely rid your body of it - think of a mold problem in a house, only you can't just gut the problem out. Jon is also very immune suppressed, so that adds to the complication. Our prayer is that the docs would know definitively what the problem is, that he is able to be treated quickly for it without further complications, and that he continues to be fever free.