Getting some relief at St. Joseph's

Jack's been admitted to the hospital this afternoon, so he and Anita can use our prayers.

Most likely he'll go home around noon tomorrow, and will want rest, but I'm sure he'll appreciate your comments and emails when he's well enough this weekend to read them.

It was sort of sudden - Anita hasn't even had the chance to tell all their family members yet - in fact, as of 8:00 tonight, they're still being treated in the ER while they find him a room.

The good news is that he's having a procedure done in the morning that should provide more relief from the pain. They're installing a billiary duct; the tumor has grown so they can't do a stint. This will be an external kind of drain to relieve some of the problems. He does have some infection, but isn't septic, as they had feared. (Medical minds - know that I'm not one, so my spelling and reporting might not be quite accurate.)

He has had a great deal of pain the last couple of days, so it's good that they're taking some steps to relieve the symptoms for him.

Anita thinks they'll go home by noon tomorrow. It's hard for her to receive and make telephone calls right now, but instead, she appreciates your caring comments and good wishes. I'll try to make sure this site gets updated as soon as I know news. . . saying he'll go home at noon still means it'll be quite a bit later until she can get some time to notify us. So this site might not be updated just as soon as things happen, but as soon as I know anything new.
- Cindy (cindyabell@gmail.com)

Without a break let your prayers continue to be made.
-- Ballentine