09/29/2016 update

It is now Thursday and still in the hospital.  Had a colonoscopy this morning that sounds ok, though we will get biopsy results in a day or two.  The home medications will be via IV and will go for several weeks.  Normal procedure would be to install a picc line in an arm, but because of the blood clots post transplant, a port will be installed in the chest.  We still need to see the eye doctor as vision is a bit fuzzy and CMV can cause unrecoverable vision loss.  Hopefully we caught it in time.  Some lab results are back and negative for C-diff and Norovirus, which is real good.  Now we don't need gowns and gloves, just a mask for John when he is out of the room.  We had hoped that the port would be installed today so that we could go home Friday before the UW/Stanford game causes traffic gridlock.  The word from staff is that if we don't get out of the parking garage before two pm , we will be stuck until at least six pm.  Everyone is trying to facilitate this for us, but the UWMC is a large machine and as such moves slowly.

John & Colleen