Jan 5 - A "down" day

I visited Joe over the lunch hour today and he's not having a good day. This is very disappointing for us because he had such a good day yesterday. The Dr. had said yesterday afternoon that his blood counts are back to normal so the kids could come up and visit. He got to see Luca and Noah for the first time this week Nico visited the night before). This morning he started out in pain and had continued nasuea. The Dr. decided later this morning to have him do a CAT scan to see what's going on with his lower abdominal tract that is causing the pain. This means that he has to drink the fluid to do the scan, which was very tough on him. He got about half of it down so they were wheeling him in for the scan when I left about a half hour ago. I'm not sure when we'll get the results (maybe by this evening?). I'll provide an update when I know more. They have given him more pain and anti-nausea drugs so he was very drowsy and has slept most of the morning.