Since it is not possible to do an endoscopy until a patient has been without the blood thinner for two days, Dr. Lee cannot scope David until Monday unless there is an emergency. If David's hematocrit drops too low that will be an emergency and they will go in, find the bleed and close it. Since his stool was black not bloody red, it seems to come from further up the digestive tract allowing the undigested food to mix with it in creating the feces. His feces tested positive for blood. The ER doc did an exam and showed us. Sometimes David appears to understand but really didn't hear it and I repeat it. Up here in the room the nurses are amazing. They read off the meds that were ordered and the hospitalist ordered a drug that caused an interaction with another one, plus it cannot go into the feeding tube. That drug was changed almost immediately when he was admitted the last time. I keep a list of everything and brought all the current meds in their original bottles. The nurse called the hospitalist and it has been corrected. Poor David.
On the other hand the room is big and well appointed. He has a nice view and it is off the main circle of the wing next to a conference room, so it is very quiet and restful. I have the iPad Pro set up to connect with our DVR at home so that David will be able to watch CNN, Fareed Zakaria tomorrow, as well as all of the other talking head shows he so loves. Jeff called and is coming down from Boston tomorrow to see his dad and Nathaniel comes every day to be with us and does whatever he can to help.
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