Lost a whole post! Cowboy in hospital with big infection

I can't believe the detailed post I wrote at 10:30 last night got deleted! What?

Well, I'm running around like a madwoman right now, so I have to make this short and catch you up later.

He's in the hospital, admitted, for at least 2 days. He doesn't have pneumonia, but he has some kind of infection, and it's in his blood, and they are determining where else, and where it's coming from (he has been having bleeding and other things he didn't tell me about). Oh my gosh, the number of details I had in the post that got lost! Arrrgh! (Beth, get over it.) They didn't put him in ICU, so I'm using that fact to tell myself this couldn't be fatal. But I'm scared, because they said he has no white cell immune system.

His white cells aren't working. He is manufacturing tiny white cells that die, called "bands", and those can't fight infection, so the oncologist will have to help figure out the problem today. I'm at home right now, getting a bunch of his stuff together, then going back over there right away.

He can't have visitors at this point, because of no immune system. Everyone has to wear a mask who goes in his room, and he has one of those big warning signs on his door.

I'll write as soon as I get over there and get the news. His blood results take 48 hours, counting from 10 pm last night, so I don't think they can let him out till they know what kind of bacteria he has or whatever it is. He's on intravenous antibiotics, broad spectrum, right now.

So thanks for your prayers and for caring! (Yes, his classes are cancelled for today--I called the University. At last, he takes a day off!) xoxoxox