Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.Just wanted to update you on Brian, he had been moved to a rehab hospital and seems to be doing better, the doctor there had a different approach to the swelling in his legs, she felt it was not edema from all the fluids he got but rather something called lympdema ( spelling?). something that cancer patients get from the nodes becoming sluggish. She took him off the diaretics. and massaged his leg and then wrapped one leg with a light material stocking and then with a material similar to a filter then wrapped that with guage and finnally an ace bandage. She just did one leg to compare. Well the next morning his leg was almost back to normal. I was amazed because he had been on all those diaretics and they did nothing. So he will be there for a week insurance wont cover anymore than that. so he will come home with the visiting nurse and they will teach me how to take of the trach. They also tried a pain patch on his jaw and neck, not sure how that will work out. But his spirits seem to be better, please continue your prayers.So glad I found this site.
Take Care
B