A home health nurse came to Kathy's house today to give Mark an IV. After receiving the IV, it was expected that Mark would feel a lot better. Unfortunately, he still continued to get worse and requested that he be taken to the James Cancer Center in Columbus. If you know Mark or have learned anything about him from this blog, you know that for him to actually request being taken to the hospital, it must be serious.
He is still having difficulty eating, the pain in his abdomen has returned and he continues to lose weight and strength. When they weighed him tonight upon his arrival at the hospital, he had lost more than thirty pounds in the last few weeks. He has at the lowest weight right now that he has ever been during his battle.
The doctors requested that he not eat or drink anything after midnight tonight so that they can run some tests on him in the morning. He will not be traveling to Pittsburgh to spend New Year's with the Fort family, which he and my mom both really, really wanted to be able to do.
Hopefully we will have more information after they run the tests tomorrow about why he is continuing to go down hill. As always, thanks for the prayers.
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Mark:
All the best to you and your family. You are truly an inspiration.
Praying for your speedy recovery.
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