Bump in the Road

The past 5 days Mitch has had this sensation when he leans back while sitting or if he lies on his back- pain and a pulsating feeling- his chest was literally jumping under your hand, on his left side, a little lower than where his heart is located.

He requested a chest CT at Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) and unfortunately it's not "nothing" as we blindly hoped, but he has a partial collapsed lung. He has to have a surgery tomorrow (hopefully tomorrow- Hopkins is always running behind) where they insert a small tube into the lung and inflate it, then leave the tube in for 24 hours to monitor and make sure it does not collapse again.

Becky, the patient care coordinator at UNC-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), ok' ed the plan and procedure on the phone to Mitch and she made sure to get the hospital's number in case the call comes tonight- She said there has been an eerie lull in calls for lung donors...not in 3 weeks.

So needless to say, Mitch is in the hospital again, at JHH- where he did NOT expect to be again after his release last month- Plus, we have 3rd row center seats to the Phish show on Saturday which he has been obsessively thinking about for months- our first show since they got back together in March. He really hopes to be able to go, but the doctors are not sure if it will work out by Saturday.

I will update as things progress or change...