Today I got to JH around 10 AM and found Adele drifting on and off to sleep. The morphine is doing its job and keeping her from feeling too much pain - BUT she is knocked out from it. She had a good night, blood pressure is low and they gave her plenty of fluids to combat that. Everything else is looking good.
The doctors this morning told her she would be out of the hospital by the middle of next week. We take that to mean - around the 10th of Feb. Then we will have 2 - 3 weeks as out-patient status and she will need a 24/7 caretaker with her. That is when we really need the help to relieve me so I can work a day or two during the week.
Her white blood count (WBC) is up - Praise God - from 60 yesterday to 350 today. That will start to go higher and higher. Normal range is 4500 - 11000 for WBC. Neutrophils are now 245 (they don't show when they are below 50 - so we did not see that count before) with a normal range of 4000 - 9000. The nurse said the neutrophils make up about 70% of the WBC. Platelets are holding while the red blood count (RBC) are up slightly - again Praise the Lord - the RBC is up on its own, she has not had a transfusion in the past day or so.
The nurse thought the doctors meant by Friday or Saturday of this week.. Wow they expect great things from these numbers this week. We might be in the apartment by the weekend!
Praise the Lord
Thanks - more later today - Rick & Adele
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Hi Adele and Rick,
ReplyDeleteJust a short note to say hello. You are in my thoughts and prayers constantly. Just came home from church where there were lots of prayers for you and friends in similar situations. Very happy to see today's update. PTL.
Doris
Hi Adele and Rick,
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to say hooray for the good news, we will keep praying for those numbers to go up. You are in our thoughts and prayers daily, both of you.
Love, Becky M.
Hurray! Keep those wbc counts climbing. Thinking of you and praying for you - Jamie
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