Well, the last few days have been jam packed with happenings.
Yesterday, Jay had an appointment with Dr. Flippo. She asked if his confusion had decreased since it's been five weeks off chemo. When we explained it had not and told her about recent events, she told him she wanted him to have a neurological evaluation to which he responded "I'll f****g kill myself before I do that." Since he was in quite a rage with clenched fists and was speaking very loudly, she said "you're scaring me." She and I left the exam room and she told me she was going to call Dr. Haq to consult with her as to how to proceed.
After the consultation, she told us they'd decided it might be due to an infection and they wanted to rule that out so Jay was transported over to the ER at Baylor Plano. Since they take "threats" seriously, he was put on suicide watch. They ran blood and urine tests which showed no infection but they wanted more testing. He finally got into a room around five o'clock. Dr. Tang, a neurologist, visited with him for about thirty minutes and shortly after she left, he was transported for a CT scan so I left for home.
This morning, I got here at about nine o'clock and shortly after I got here, he/we had a video conference with Dr. Wright. That lasted about an hour and she was somewhat encouraging. He had an EEG this morning and now has spots of blue hair - looks trendy. He said "I haven't eaten" anything but upon examining his breakfast tray, it was nearly empty. He's scheduled for an MRI of the head and that should be done in a little while.
He's still on suicide watch which means there's an aide with him at all times. Rather off putting for him but has to be done. I am totally convinced he'd never do harm to himself but the nurses can't do anything about removing the "sitter" unless they get orders from the doctor. Nurse Amy said she would let the attending physician know my feelings. Hopefully, they can remove the sitter.
During the video conference with Dr. Wright, she gave him several tests and he didn't do very well. She said tests results showed there's "room in his brain" for improvement and is going to prescribe something to help him sleep and calm him down. That would certainly be a very good thing.
He'll probably be here until at least Friday but if they can help him that would be a huge blessing.
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