Day +12 and +13, the weekend

Ken is having a tough weekend. He didn't sleep at all on Friday night. His counts are up, but so is his fever. His fever spiked Friday night, his blood pressure went way down and his heart rate went way up, to 156. All day Sat, he tried to sleep, but only took 10 minute cat naps. He was having crazy dreams and talking in his sleep. He slept a little better Sat night, but still had a flucuating fever. They have him on tylenol and a ton of other stuff. There are 7 bags of meds hanging on his pole at the moment. I think only a few of them are dripping at the moment, but that's a bunch of stuff. His mouth is way better, so I think they are going to slow down the pain meds today. Maybe that will help with the dreams and the talking crazy. He is scaring me. They are talking about maybe putting him in ICU today. We are waiting to see the doctors to see what they say. Ken is a little to healthy to be in ICU, but he is a little to sick to stay here. They don't have equipment to monitor him from the nurses station over here. They have to come into the room to check his vitals. I asked if they could teach me how to check them and I would do it every 15 minutes, but they didn't like that idea. So we are waiting to see what will happen. Guess we can rule out going back to the apartment any time soon. As far as the transplant goes, Ken seems to be responding beautifully. His counts are way up and we would be excited if his lungs would just cooperate. They can't seem to find any reasons for the infection that are causing the pnemonia and the fever. They have run a bunch of tests, and they are supposedly treating him for 99% of the things that could be causing it, but he isn't getting better, at least not in his lungs. I'm asking them to take another x ray today or maybe another cat scan. I'd like to know if the pnemonia is better or worse. Thanks for your prayers. Bev