It has been a crazy couple of days. Jason has been in the hospital since Thursday evening. He didn't find out until Saturday morning that he has Mono.
His blood platelet level is what is keeping him in the hospital right now. They found out that he is losing blood platelets late Friday evening. They have continued to fall. Each day the rate of decline is less, but until this problem regulates itself he will not be coming home.
He is also having problems with his blood pressure. He has been on blood pressure medicine for almost a year now and the past month or so has seen much fluctuation in his blood pressure. It has been consistently high (though not dangerously), so the doctor changed his medication. Now it is very very low. Hopefully once he gets out of the hospital it will regulate itself. The doctor thinks that Jason is having this problems because of stress, so we will be talking about ways to reduce his stress when he gets home. It will definitely mean cutting back on some of the ministry areas that he is working on, but we are hoping that with a little effort we can shift some things together so that it will reduce the stress, but not the areas in which we are serving.
Anyway, we are hoping that Jason can come home today.
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