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Bill’s Story

Site created on February 16, 2020

Hello Everyone, as most of you know Bill has been battling Pancreatic Cancer since April of 2019. He underwent 12 rounds of Chemo and 3 weeks of Radiation and had great results. January 17th he underwent surgery to remove the tumor and had great success and is cancer free. On January 25th he was sent to ICU because of extremely low blood pressure and they discovered that he had internal bleeding so they did a ct scan to see what was going on. Coming back from CT he had a heart attack. They were able to revive him and they found out that his Hepatic Artery blew. He underwent surgery to stop the bleeding but in order to do so he lost the blood flow from that artery to his liver. He had multiple organ failure including his kidneys, liver, heart and lungs. He spent 3 days on a breathing machine and they had to do 24 hour dialysis for his kidneys, everything started working again, thank goodness!! after 11 days in ICU they transferred him down to the PCU floor which is Progressive Care Unit. A step down from ICU which was great news. After a week on the PCU floor he suffered sepsis shock and was taken back to ICU for 5 days trying to get ahead of the infection he is fighting in his abdomen. He has had multiple procedures to place drains and exchange drains so he has the best chance to fight the infection. We are back on the PCU floor but we have a very long road to recovery ahead of us. With no more complications we are still looking at another 3 weeks in the hospital and then he will have to go to a skilled rehabilitation for at least a month to get back to 100%. He is extremely tough to have made it this far and very lucky. We have been with him every step of the way and we will continue to be there for him. I will update this site so everyone can keep tabs on Bill. The doctors are cautiously optimistic that he will pull through and eventually get back to the life he loves. Thank you for all the love and support through these really hard times

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Journal entry by Becca Green — Mar 28, 2020

Hey everyone, sorry its been awhile since I updated everyone. Bill was released out of ICU on Tuesday. He has been feeling good but between yesterday and today its gotten a bit rough. He is dealing with bleeding from his nose and a picc site that they took out. They took him off his blood thinner and gave him 2 units of blood and plasma to hopfully get his blood clotting better. He also got a fever and fast heart rate and high blood pressure so they are watching him closely for sepsis. His liver is having a hard time too. They will continue to watch him closely to see what can be done. There are no visitors allowed at Mayo so its getting hard on him and myself at the fact he is alone but hopfully he will get better soon and we can bring him home.

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