Steven - Update

Its 4:45 PST - this has been a day that includes several little, but
important improvements. First, after four days of temperature around 102;
it has, for the moment been broken - currently at 98.2. The nurse now has
the chilled blanket under him, not on top which made all the difference.
Hooray for her common sense - the doctor sure didn't come up with that one.

The white blood count is trending up slightly from 300 on Monday to over
2100 this morning; Dr. Boasberg is encouraged by this development and is
predicting continued improvement in this area throughout the night. New
blood work has been ordered to confirm this trend. We should see these
results on the blood work (Thursday morning; we are also expecting
information on the bone marrow biopsy.

The strep infection is in his bloodstream which is still very dangerous.
Worse, its in the tissue in his neck which has caused tremendous swelling -
it actually is the cause of his impaired breathing and it closed his airway
completely. The good news is that the swelling has gone down by almost
half. Since this is something you can actually see - its especially
encouraging.

So that's the update from St. Johns today- - would write more but a Rabbi
just stopped to by to talk to me. He thinks I don't look so good and
decided to say a prayer - I think I'll listen just this one time.

Thank you for all your prayers - steven appreciates it.

Mark