A Day Off?!

It's true.  Steve and I were home ALL day today, no hospital visits for either of us!  We got some incredibly great news that this morning's blood draw (home health nurse @ 8 a.m.) showed his platelet count jumped to 18!!!  Yesterday's were at 15, and Wednesday's were 5....even though he got one bag of platelets Wednesday and one on Thursday, his count has NEVER gone up like that, so we got to cancel our Blood Center appointment.  Hemoglobin is down a bit, to 7.7, so we bargained with the staff to let us come in to Prentice as an "outpatient" on Saturday for a quick fill-up, which will hopefully only be red cells.  Some more good news, at least I will take it as such, is that his back was sore today when he awoke, especially the left side (spleeeeen infarcting? hmmm?).  There could be a correlation between rising platelet counts and reduction of spleen function.

They are trying to shore up potassium and magnesium levels again today, so he has a large bag of IV fluids and a battery-powered pump at home in a fanny pack.  It's pretty clever!  This way he can be mobile and get what he needs without being tied to an IV stand.  Only thing is, he doesn't have a fanny.

Molly and I did a lot of cleaning, picking up, and work on Steve's web business. So, so much of our home has been neglected and we still have a huge to-do list, but we did get some knocked out and it felt great to have help!!   Molly went to Costco for some items that are appealing to Steve, and we were thrilled to be home for an entire day.  You cannot imagine how nice that felt!!!

Kevin's Boy Scout Troop Spaghetti Dinner is Saturday from 4-7, so I know Steve would love to stop and say hi....let's hope for a great night's sleep and some more baby steps of improvement tomorrow!