We are back home

We came home Friday afternoon. They ran some blood work on Jeff on Wednesday before he was scheduled to have surgery and his sodium was 118, but they like it to be in the 130s. He was admitted to the hospital and was given IV fluids with sodium. Thursday his number was 124, but his pain was creeping up and they were giving shots of Fentanyl in the IV for the break thru pain, but it never seemed to get on top of it. They eventually switched to a PCA pain pump, but that did not seem to make a difference. They started to give him nutrients thru an IV Thursday evening to increase his nutrition. More blood was drawn Friday morning, but his sodium had only climbed up to 128.
Dr Hamilton and come in to visit with us and said he had looked at the actual scans with the radiologist and the metastisis was more than what they originally thought. There were some spots found up by his liver, but there didn't seem to be any inside the liver. The surgeon said that he could still help with the bowel blockage, but didn't think that he would do anything that would help with Jeff's pain. He had come to the new conclusion that removing the right kidney was not something that would help Jeff's pain and felt very much that the tumors in the pelvic region was causing Jeff's pain. Dr. Hamilton wanted us to be aware that we might just be prolonging Jeff's pain.
I am not for sure how much of this information Jeff knows as his pain was so severe that I don't think he was able to hear too much.
Jeff decided Friday afternoon that he couldn't handle the pain any longer and needed to come home. Since we have been home we still have been battling his pain and he is now taking liquid Oxy again for breakthrough pain. Although he did not vomit during his hospital stay he began vomiting again once he got home. He had lots of visitors for his birthday, so today he is mostly resting plus we had a long night of vomiting and pain. When Jeff is able to I will make sure that he knows what the doctor said in the hospital and then he can decide what he would like to do. Jeff might want to try surgery again, but I am not for sure.
Thanks for all the prayers, gifts and positive energy for Jeff. Hope all is well with everyone and take care.

-Abby