A day at the hospital

I called the hospital in the morning and after some time got a call back and they had managed to fit Jan Arne to see a doc in the afternoon.

Blood tests were all ok, and the doc did not consider the ascites bad even though there was some fluid in the stomach, or whatever the whole cavity area would be called in English. So no need to drain the fluid, she said most of the uncomfort is caused by the constipation (caused by the nausea pills). The plan is for Jan Arne now to take some medicine to ease the constipation, and quit the nausea medication. The stomach wasn't actually that bad during the day today as it was yesterday evening, but good to check everything of course, like that there's no blockage in the bowel. All the personnel in the palliative ward is really nice, we even got offered some juice and Xmas cake. And to top this one of the doctors there is an old dear friend of mine from school I haven't met in years!

They also took some x-rays to check if there's anything worrying anywhere but luckily there was no fluid in the lungs and also none of the metastases in the bones and vertebrae had caused anything "destructive", meaning risk of the bone or vertebrae breaking because of the metastases "eating up" the bone. The doc translated us the results of the Docrates PET-CT and actually the vertebrae mets are quite high up (one somewhere close to the neck, the other in chest area), not in the lower back as we thought. If they start causing pain or risk breaking the bone they will radiate the mets. I'd still feel a lot better if there weren't any mets in the bones and especially in vertebrae :(

Jan Arne also got some new sleeping pills so hopefully he'll be able to sleep better tonight.