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Dan welcomes visitors. He is in room 4442. Maybe call first to see if he is still there. If not he enjoys visitors at Avalon too. Room 38.

As if I'm not having enough stress. I come home this evening and a sprinkler head on the wheel line has blown off! OK, I can handle this. Where did I put my anxiety, stress pills?????????

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Wednesday morning. More bloody stools. In for another endoscope. This time it showed active bleeding ulcers. They did something to it. {I have the name written down at the hospital. I'm home.} We will see if this does the trick. Everyone keep your fingers crossed.

As for his swelling. Way down. He has boney knees once again. Urine output has decreased. Since Sunday he has recieved a total of six units of blood. Add that to last weeks four and you get ten total. WOW!

Thru all this Dan continues to feel good. He is confused at time. Some of this is his normal confusion and some is from everything that has been going on. His blood sugar counts look good. They go up after he ears, but that is to be expected.

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Tuesday another bloody stool. Could just be leftover in the intestines. Swelling in legs and feet is way way down. They are giving him lasix to help with this. It is working. His urine output is really up. This is to be expected. They are keeping close tabs on this to make sure his kidneys are doing ok. Also getting meds to help protect and coat stomach.

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{I am doing this in segments because my computor is giving me fits.}

Monday morning he had another endoscope done. This showed some very angry ulcers. Not bleeding at the moment, but definatly had been. They put some clips on them to hopefully stop any further bleeding.

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I'm stinkin tired. Dan is back in hospital. Yes, he was just discharged on Friday. Everything was looking really good. Sunday he had dark bloody stool. This usually indicates a bleed in the stomach. His blood counts were down also. So, off to hospital he goes.