Update

Sorry it has taken me a few days to get this update to you. One of the reasons for my tardiness is that school started back up, so I've been running between work and the hospital and coming home exhausted and dejected to walk the dog and crash. The other reason is that David seemed stuck in a cycle of mental confusion and sleeping, and I could not get a sense of where things were going.
Yesterday David was much better, and almost back to his own self, at least mentally. Just the day before he was hallucinating something crazy. A sampling of his drug-induced wisdom:
"This room looks like a Japanese kid's room." (About his hospital room).
"Raw fish, raw fish, just like at a Japanese birthday party."
"Look at those big flowers all over the wall. It's very Japanese." (He was on a Japanese kick that whole afternoon. He had had a Japanese nurse in the room for a couple of minutes.The day before that though, he had been in a Vietnamese restaurant for most of the day....)
Then he was ordering food. He was starving. He hadn't eaten for six days, and circled some 12 items off of the menu, including, soup, turkey pot pie, mashed potatoes, gravy, butter, rolls, blueberry pie, vanilla custard and chocolate ice cream. Then he turned to Amanda and said:
"You're not going to eat my food, are you?"
"No, of course not. Why would I?"
"Maybe you are trying to be Japanese."
"Why, is that what the Japanese do? Eat your food?"
"Yeah-uh! When their economy is in the tank it is."
Then he turned to me with an accusatory look, and said
"Monika. Will you stop playing with my urinal! They'll think I'm the crazy one."
I told him I would try to refrain myself.
Later he told Deb she couldn't stand up because she had a snake wrapped around her leg.
We were much amused, but it was also very worrisome. I couldn't tell if his confusion was strictly drug induced, or if there was something more dire going on. That was why it was such a relief to see him yesterday, completely lucid, and with his faculties back to normal.
Over these last few days he has been through a lot. He has been given 12 or so bags of blood. They did a procedure where they went in and unclotted his stent, which had become blocked. That went well, but he is still retaining fluid. He stopped bleeding, then started again. His blood values have been stable, then dropped again. Today they performed a colonoscopy, to try to figure out where he is bleeding from. David was up all through last night, prepping for the colonoscopy, so he is very tired today.
More later.....

Peace and love,
Monika