 The plan is to discharge the patient home.  He can resume his home medications of Prandin, Actos, Lipitor, Glucophage, Benicar, and Advair.  We will also start him on a tapered dose of prednisone for 4 weeks.  We will start him on 15 mg p.o. for seven days.  Then, week #2, we will start him on 40 mg for 1 week.  Then, week #3, we will start him on 30 mg for 1 week, and then, 20 mg for 1 week, and then finally we will stop.  He was instructed to take tapered dose of prednisone for 4 weeks as per the GI recommendations.