....You see what we thought was the flu was a bowel obstruction which they thought was from a large mass (tumor) as the CT showed. But just as the flu (which he never had!!), fooled us, the mass fooled the doctors. When they opened Lenny up tonight at 6:32 for emergency surgery they found that he had a perforated appendix! He was filled with infection from the appendix which they said happened some time? ago??? Go figure, most people die when an appendix ruptures, he is now out of surgery and we have 24 hours to wait until he is out of the woods. His kidneys right now are not functioning properly due to dehydration ...and due to the massive internal infection which they are treating, his white blood cell count is very low. And this is a guy that on the way to the er, called work and told the guy, "well I think i'll need at least till Tuesday off, but I don't know!" and he knew he was going into the er for the obstruction and looking at surgery! So all funnies aside he is a very sick guy right now, and the Doc says the next 48 hours he will probably get very sick, that the effects of this type of infection don't show up sometimes for about 2 days. I hope Saturday brings better news and finding for him.So keep your fingers crossed for a speedy recovery and I will let you all know how he is doing when I can!