YAY! It's funny, in this journey, the things that make you excited. Going back to the day hospital and seeing our people made us so happy today!
First familiar face was one of our nurses from last week...she kept referring to Andy's time in the hospital as his time 'in the big house'.
Overall, things are looking really good for Andy.
His Potassium and Magnesium are a little lower and he ended up receiving a Potassium supplement - But creatinine actually increased. As did calcium.
Hg increased all on its own from 10.7 to 11.9 and that made us REALLY happy.
Platelets went from 13 to 21, which is great, but also a bit of a false positive because he got the platelet transfusion yesterday. This is the number we are kind of watching right now. We need him to be able to make platelets on his own, at a decent rate to really get discharged from day hospital. So while we are always praying for WBC/ ANC...tonight say a little prayer for his platelets!
ANC is at 2.66 and WBC are at 3.6. I mean. We basically could go to a rave with these numbers. :-) But seriously. Let's all just have a little dance party to celebrate this climb. Andy's immune system is still crap, but at least he has some soldiers to TRY and fight something that comes his way!
We met with one of our new favs - Areyl - who told us some of what I told you above and also that we COULD see a dip in the WBC / ANC as Andy's body stabilizes with the decreasing effects from the Nuelasta injections (which last for about 14 days...even though, I feel like it's been way more than 14 days since our last Nuelasta injection?). However, this is VERY good news for us to hear because if we saw those number decrease we would be devastated.
We tried asking - what next - but so much of that answer is still - It Depends. If this, then that. If that, then this....
So everything is still relatively clear as mud...hopefully, maybe, we'll know more tomorrow!
OH! And one more important fact of the day. Andy took about a 30 minute rest over his lunch break and he was up with us until about 8 PM, without looking like he wanted to crawl out of his skin. Baby steps...but HUGE steps!
Also - my hands are literally cracked and bleeding from washing them thoroughly all the time. How do doctors and nurses do this?
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