Update

It looks like we will be staying for awhile at Dominican. Jerry had a chest x-ray this morning at 6am, a little early for us late risers. The x-ray shows the pleural effusion is again taking on fluid in addition the pulmonologist now believes that the lung infarct was not an infarct at all because an infarct would not cause so much fluid.  The doctor believes that what they thought to be an infarct is actually a pneumonia. The plan is to do another chest x-ray tomorrow, if the fluid increases again then the doctor will do another thorasentesis (remove the fluid) with the assist of an ultrasound.  The ultrasound will assist the doc in finding the precise spot to insert the drain.

If you've been following along with what's been going on then you should be familiar with Jerry's INR.  If you remember the INR should be between 2 and 3, however last week the INR was 4.6.  This means that Jerry's dosage of coumadin was way to high.  Jerry was taken off the coumaden to bring the INR down and now his INR level is 1.7, so starts the process over of finding the right medication dosage for him.  Jerry goes back on coumadin today and won't be released until his INR level is between 2 & 3.  Between the INR and monitoring the activity in the lung we are expected to be here at least through Sunday.  :(

I'll keep you posted,

Katie