Update by Katie

Hi all-this is Katie (girlfriend- not sister) writing for Sam. I am doing a quick update for Sam who is not quite feeling up to posting for himself.

We have had quite the week! Sam had to make an unplanned trip to the clinic on Monday when he started vomiting and had a fever which was rising fairly quickly. This trip turned into a hospital admission and almost a week stay. He is still in the hospital. The doctors have found an infection in his blood and have found an anti-biotic which seems to be working pretty well. He is starting to feel a little better and some of the nurses seem hopeful he may get to go home soon-there is some talk of maybe tomorrow but Sam says he's starting to feel as though the fever is going up again and so he is less hopeful than the nurses.

In order for Sam to be able to go home he needs to have no fever ( or at least a very low grade fever-we aren't totally sure). His white counts are extremely low: 0.2, but believe it or not that is higher than they have been all week. Because of this they are starting to give him something to help his whites kick into gear-hopefully this will help get us out of here sooner.

I can't think of anything else to add at the moment. I'm hoping Sam will feel up to posting for himself soon-I know I personally miss reading the great stories he posts. Hopefully he will be able to give you all a much more thorough and entertaining account of our hospital adventure soon.

Thanks to all those who have been sending good vibes his way-we appreciate each and every one of them!