Jeff’s daytime fevers have gotten better, but he says he feels worse. He continues to have night sweats which indicated that he has a fever during the night. His cough has gotten worse and is so strong that he has strained most of the muscles in his abdomen. When he has be lying down, his [...]
We had a little bit of a scare today. Jeff started feeling bad a few days ago and was feeling much worse by last night. He got very little sleep last night due to feeling feverish, achy, and coughing. This morning, his temperature was 99.5, but it slowly crept up throughout the day to 102.2. [...]
It has been almost a month since my last post. The doctor has me keeping a log of when Jeff passes out and what he was doing at the time. Based on the log, we can tell what activities are most likely to cause him to pass out. Because of this, he is learning to [...]
Jeff is having kind of a hard time tonight. A man who lives in the neighborhood across the street from ours passed away two days ago. We passed the limo taking his family to the funeral on our way home this afternoon. The man was 41 years old and was diagnosed with melanoma about a year after Jeff [...]
It has been pretty crazy around here lately. Last week, Jeff passed out five or six times. Once was at the movies after we took the older boys to see Star Wars. I think all of the other times were at home, which is where it usually happens. He fell down the stairs twice. Two [...]
Today, we traveled to Simpsonville for our nephew’s birthday party. In true Jeff style, he waited until the last possible minute to get out of the bed. I’m guessing that is why he passed out. He probably got up too fast, not to mention the bending over involved in getting dressed. We were both exhausted [...]
Yesterday, we went to see Jeff’s family doctor again. He said Jeff has an upper respiratory infection. It is viral, so there isn’t a lot we can do. He did give him a prescription to treat the symptoms while we wait it out though. He said Jeff’s lungs sounded great, so we were very happy [...]
Yesterday was a pretty good day for Jeff. He felt better than he has in a really long time. He was feeling good and awake in the morning, so he let me sleep in and took Dylan to preschool for me. After we picked Dylan up at lunch time, we ran a couple of errands. [...]
Today was doctor visit day. Around lunch time, we went to see Jeff’s family doctor. He seemed to have some new ideas for us. He said he thought of Jeff when he was at a continuing education class at Sanger heart clinic. They were talking about a heart monitor that is implanted just under the skin. [...]
This afternoon, Jeff and I went to get the results of the neuropsych tests. For over an hour, the doctor showed me the tests that were given to Jeff and told us how he did and what each test was testing for. We were pleasantly surprised that his memory is actually still pretty good. He [...]