Updates in the Great Stobbma Drama of Winter 2015

Bryce is a neck breather.  He has a hole in his neck where he breathes.  That hole is called a stoma.  Bryce has taken to calling it his Stobbma.

Another quick update because I am at work, but I've had many, many inquiries as to how Bryce is doing.  Sorry for not updating, there just wasn't much to say until Sunday.  Then, we knew he had an appointment with Dr. Y here in Austin today.

Back to the really, really bad infection.  We knew it was there and they ramped up his antibiotics to something stronger last Wednesday.  Bryce slept a LOT last week.  He just didn't feel good.  There wasn't much improvement last week in this thing either.  For a man that can't feel his neck, he was actually in pain.  Things in his chest and shoulder from front to back hurt.  What little bit of his left collar bone is left hurt him to touch it.  He's been emailing daily updates to Dr. P in Houston with gross pictures and all.  Friday his email asked "What do I need to look for that will send me to a hospital?"  It's been kinda scary, to say the least.

Then when he was....  uhmmmm... let's see if I can keep this clean and not gross....  He woke up in the middle of the night after going to bed Friday night and was clearing out some of the infection.  When that happened, he noticed that one of the metal pins/markers came out of this wound.  Makes me wonder if that's what caused this infection all along.  After that came out, this thing started to look better.  Sunday morning, he turned a corner and started to feel better than he had in a week.

Today, he went to see Dr. Y and the results of the culture show staph.  So now we know that much.  While he was there, he started the process of signing up for the clinical trial that Dr. Y will have going.  I don't know much about that yet and I'm sure I'll find out soon.  Right after he was done there, MD Anderson called me to say that they've scheduled the CT guided biopsy for Friday.  He'll have to go down for evaluation Thursday and he will get the biopsy Friday.

I do not know when he'll get the results of that.  We will certainly let everyone know.  In the meantime.....

Be faithful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer ~Romans 12:12
PRAY! FIGHT!! WIN!!!