Update July 10th

As mentioned late yesterday, two fluid filled sacks were found in Jimm's upper abdominal area.. not too far from the pancreas. The docs were able to get a tube into the larger one and drain it. The other will be tended to today during the planned washout procedure. The fluid itself was analyzed and found to be infected, leading them to believe that these sacks may have caused Jimm's Friday night attack in which he became quite ill. This unfortunately has resulted in the return of the 24 hour dialysis machine and the ventilator, the discontinuation of stomach tube feeding, caused an indeterminate delay in closing him up, and thrown his recovery back about a week.
However, Dr. Lissauer says we should be encouraged by Jimm's overall progress, and that he would be very surprised if these backslides did not occur.

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