But anyway, although her fever went down and her blood cultures were coming back clean (indicating no infection), her bilirubin was slightly elevated, indicating a problem with her liver. So they did an MRCP to see if there was a problem with her stents. After reading the scans on Sunday, the GI doctors said there were no immediate issues with her biliary tract, including the stents, so they deferred any treatment of her bile duct until Dr. Vitale is available. Also, her bilirubin started to come down a little.
In the meantime, the oncologists came in (Dr. Riley's group) and said they saw several(?) lesions on the liver, each measuring an inch or so. This is in addition to the original tumor that we know is there. So, without doing a biopsy, there's no way of being sure what the lesions are, but.... they could be more cancer, or just an infection. Either way, they're getting treated, since she's still getting ampicillin (for infection) and chemotherapy (for the cancer). So, we have an appointment with Dr. Riley to check her blood/liver and see what she thinks about the new developments. Maybe she'll want to change the chemo, maybe not. In any event, Marye was very happy to be discharged from the hospital and hovel in her own bed. I'm still giving her the ampicillin infusions every six hours and trying to get her to eat as much as she can tolerate.
There are a whole host of other side-effects from the chemo and antibiotics that are generally making her life difficult, if not miserable, and maybe I'll expound on that in the future. But now it's late, and I need to get some sleep so I can get up at 0600 to give her her next infusion, so I'll post more after our appointment with Dr. Riley on Tuesday.
Finally, on Sunday morning, there were a group of gentlemen who were walking around the hospital ward singing gospel tunes in various rooms. I though they were there for a particular patient, but I found out that every Sunday they roam the entire hospital and will walk into any room to which they are invited. Marye likes gospel music, so I waved them in. Here's a short clip I took with my phone. Sorry it's a little fuzzy, I think that they were too close for the camera to focus.
