January 26, 2008

Here are today's labs
Date------Day----WBC----ANC--------Hgb--------PLT---- Transfusions
15 Jan---135-----0.3------0-------7.9/9.4-----------35--1 Unit of Blood
19 Jan---139-----0.2------0----------8.2-------2/35-1 Unit of Platelets
20 Jan---140-----0.2------0----------7.7---------26----2 Units of Blood
21 Jan---141-----0.3------0----------9.5----------17----------------N/A
22 Jan---142-----0.7-----410---------9.0------13/43--1 Unit of Platelets
23 Jan---143-----1.8----1400---------8.5----------38----------------N/A
24 Jan---144-----3.3----2700---------8.4----------34----------------N/A
25 Jan---145-----5.9----4320---------9.0----------28----------------N/A
26 Jan---146-----4.5----3100------9.1----------37------------N/A

I sweat like a freight train through the night then I froze because the bed was soaked. I woke up to Carli's smiling face saying you want to go home today. I sat up & said Hell Yeah! She laughed & said she was going to e-mail Dr. Walker my oversight Dr. & work on my discharge paperwork & new prescriptions. I am so relieved I miss the kids so much. It has been a very long week & one if not the toughest of my life. In talking to Carli my fever broke sometime between Thursday night & Friday Morning, they removed my PICC Friday afternoon, the PICC culture came back negative. The CAT Scan showed whited patches on my lungs so they started me on the anti fungals right away & they are sending me home on a months supply of anti fungals. They are uncertain which was the cause of the fevers because they stopped before the line was out & before the CAT Scan. I have to have a follow up CAT Scan in a couple of weeks to check to make sure the white patches on my lungs which is assumed to be a fungal infection is gone. They cannot confirm it is a fungal infection without doing a bronchoscopy procedure & they are not going to do one. I will be getting my 5th Bone Marrow Biopsy in a couple of weeks as well to see where we are at with my Cancer before we start the maintenance chemotherapy. I asked Carli to make sure Dr. Walker finished my Employer letter to have my disability continued since I cannot go back to work like I had planned to try in a couple of weeks. So it looks like that will get pushed back another month or so which is for the best. It is going to take me a few weeks just to get my strength back from this.

Marc was up here at the hospital first thing this morning he is patiently awaiting my discharge paperwork. I guess when Marc brought Zack home from Misty's yesterday he said "where's my mom?" Marc told him I was still in the hospital he said he did not care I want my mommy. Marc said he didn't seem pressed about it he was more concerned I wasn't home. It will be nice to surprise him & the rest of the kids later on this afternoon.

Dr. Lam Came in & assessed me & she is going to send Dr. Flynn down here to access me one more time before they let me outta here.

The important thing is I'm going home!