Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:50:39 -0500
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From: David Clarkson <dvdclarksn@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: MOD Mike Collum 11/28 update
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This is great news! Mary sure has been a rock for Mike during this ordeal. Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery Mike. We know there are still challenges that lie ahead but certainly none that your "can do" attitude won't overcome. Thanks for keeping us all informed David.
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David Clarkson
90 Westy (I sometimes just sit or nap in mine too)
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From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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Sent: Sat, Nov 28, 2009 12:34 pm
Subject: MOD Mike Collum 11/28 update
Mary says:?
>Amazing! He has had three really good days. This hospital is?
>wonderful!!! They called in a consultant and along with all the?
>other doctors involved....must be about 15 or more, they have?
>decided to take him off the steroids, put him back on a smaller?
>dosage of the chemo drug. His kidneys may not return to normal?
>however we are not giving up that happening just yet. The Lungs?
>have not healed as much as they would like but the x-rays for the?
>past several days have not changed so nothing new is going on in?
>there. He has maintained a positive attitude and his spirit has?
>been high all the way. His doctors tell him that his attitude?
>toward all that has been going on with him has helped him?
>tremendously. He is making his own blood now and he has started?
>getting some immune cells back, although the number is low it is?
>still great news. He is still getting dialysis every?
>day. Yesterday they got him up and walked him around in the hall?
>for the first time in over a month. He did ok but had to stop?
>several times to put on the mask along with the nose canula to get?
>his oxygenation back up to a good level. They told us yesterday?
>that he may get to go home on Wednesday or Friday. However in order?
>to do that he has to be able to get up, move around normally and?
>still maintain an oxygenation level of 92 and all the infections and?
>fungi that is showing in his blood must be gone. When he leaves?
>here he will still have to have dialysis every day, still be on?
>antibiotics for at least 6 weeks. Not sure if his blood sugar will?
>return to normal after the steroids are finished. Hopefully he will?
>be ok in that he was never a diabetic before. There is a host of?
>other meds he will be on too but we can handle that. He is looking?
>forward to going home, says he has to do something to the Westy to?
>get it ready for winter. I know the water storage tank needs to be?
>drained but not sure what else. He would like to get in his Westy?
>and take a nap!!! Can you believe that!!! Hope we have a mild?
>winter because I am sure he is going to be sitting in his Westy for?
>a few hours every week. Thanks for keeping in touch. My ability to?
>get on line is difficult at times. Mary?
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