Morning Update

The attending physician has not come by on rounds yet.  A preliminary reading of last night's CT scan showed some fluid, but the GI specialist says he doesn't know for sure what that means yet, and is waiting for the full report from the radiologist.  The fever has returned, he was at 101 degrees at the last check.  This morning's blood work showed an elevated white cell count.  To Sara and I, all of that sounds like an infection somewhere.  No doctor has said that yet.  More news when I have it.

Psuedo-Cyst

The results of last night's CT scan are back.  Ben has developed a psuedo-cyst at the top of his pancreas that was not there before the procedure.  We had been warned before the ERCP was done that this was one of the potential side-effects.  The current battle plan is to put Ben back on NPO (absolutely no food or drink by mouth, all nutrients from the IV), start a new antibiotic, continue to give him Tylenol as needed to control the fever and Morphine to control the pain, and watch him for the next couple of days.  If the psuedo-cyst has not begun to resolve itself, or if it has actually grown larger, then they may need to go in surgically to drain the fluid.