"Patient Is Going to Bronc Soon"

 3:25 PM    Jon is getting loaded onto a wheelchair, quite a production with the IV pole and the blankets and the masks and the tubing. He is on his way to the bronchoscopy. I am quite sure that his determination to have this thing done today has helped us to get to this point. Now and then someone would come in to check on him and sometimes they would ask if he was too hungry to wait anymore. Nope. Not hungry. Hoping for a bronchoscopy.  

It is amusing to watch Jon keeping track of all the sequences, and to listen to him reminding them of all the things that need to fall into place. Sometimes each individual does not have the whole picture in mind, but believe me, Jon has it. The main bottleneck to leaving here is getting the home care meds ordered and delivered. The window between doses is eight hours. His next dose is somewhere around 5 PM, optimistically. This means that the next one would be around 1 AM. But where will we be at 1 AM? Where should they try to deliver the cefepime? It feels very tight to me, getting the home care meds to the right place in time. If you ask me, it feels likely that he will be here tonight and get discharged tomorrow.

Every day is a cliff-hanger. That's a joke. Every day is full of new questions and new plans.