Waiting for results

On Friday TJ woke up with swelling in his right arm pit an increased arm pain. His doctor wanted him to come in right away because of the holiday weekend and with the RNC in town next week access to the medical center will be limited. Dr. Corbett ordered a doppler (ultrasound) of his arm and shoulder since that is the side that was affected by the clot back in December. The good news is that the ultrasound showed that the clot has totally resolved and all the vessels looked good. The cardiologist had expected that the large clot would rubberize and become a permanent fixture in TJ's arm so it was great news that it is gone! He then had two MRI's of his neck and shoulder, but it will take several days for those results.

After things settle down in St. Paul TJ will be scheduled for a Holter Monitor to figure out why his pulse is running so high. He saw the cardiologist in March when they discontinued the Amioderone, started when he was in atrial fib in the hosptial, and has not had a cardiac follow up since.

The moisture issues in our laundry room are not fully dried up. I have been reacting pretty strongly to it so we have been staying with friends in Prescott and being wonderfully cared for. We may need to have a professional company come in for remediation. It is discouraging as I had just cleared the symptoms from being exposed to mold at school when we started having a problem at home! Here is a link to what the pulmonologist thinks I have; Until Jon gets on a creates a hyper link you will need to copy and paste it into your browser.

http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/hypersensitivity_pneumonitis.jsp

This weekend Tim's brother and a crew he has assembled are painting the outside of our house. What a wonderful gift!

Prayer requests are:

Quick results from TJs MRI's and an issue that can be treated.

Reduced pain for TJ

A good solution to our laundry room and rapid resolution of my symptoms.

Jon and chip are back to college this week, both at Bethel


Deeply grateful for your encouragement and prayer!

Mary Ann