The Carders

We would like to ask for your prayers for Patrick’s brother, Michael Carder.

Mike has been back in the hospital again since last week Friday. The doctors found that he had pneumonia. Now the question was – which kind? Today the pulmonary department performed a bronchoscopy of his lungs. No results yet. As they also checked his blood, they found that Mike has a fungal infection of the blood and the lungs. The markers in the blood point towards Mucor. Again, not confirmed yet. The transplant doctors, pulmonologist, infectious disease doctors and lead surgeon are all checking Mike out and are awaiting the test results. As of now, he will have to stay for the next two weeks here in the Stanford hospital. The antifungal medication that he gets is very potent and has to be monitored. Depending on what the outcome is, Mike will possibly have to have surgery on his lungs. That is the only way to eliminate the fungus.