This Just In...

He is coming home today.  Numbers are up some more, they are hanging a bag of platelets and 2 units of reds and sending him on his way at some point later today, my guess is at rush hour.  Stay tuned.

****Update, 8:15 Monday evening****

Home and resting.  He's less medically fragile than a week ago.  We are scheduled for clinic tomorrow morning, (YES!  Back we go!!) so he will have blood tested and platelets hung.  We are being exceptionally pro-active on our end with this, and calls started up the MOMENT discharge was announced.  We will have daily home health assessments and labs drawn.  Eventually Steve will be able to get blood and platelets at local Christ Hospital.  

3 a.m. results:  WBCs at 3.1 (ANCs 2.5), hemoglobin 8.8, platelets at 8.  Dr. Mehta came in early and told Steve that while he would prefer his spleen was 100% embolized, he would settle for 80% and is hopeful the reinfusion of stem cells coupled with the dying-on-the-vine spleen will vault the numbers upward.

I am happy he is not neutropenic, that makes for less stress in the house in many ways.  He's still not eating, although I would imagine being home will help that along faster than if he was still in the hospital.


Goodnight.