Pretty much all good news! As expected, my white blood cell count did start rising yesterday – this morning’s blood test showed the count had gone from 0.1 to 0.6 since the day before.
To get discharged I need the count to go above 1.0 and stay there for two days, my mouth sores have to abate so I don’t need the morphine pump, and I have to show that I am taking in enough fluids. And of course develop no other complications, fever, etc.
I expect the counts to go above 1.0 tomorrow. And my mouth and throat pain has eased considerably in the last 24 hours. I wont have any trouble with fluid intake.
So should be good to go Sunday. That would make the hospitalization exactly three weeks, which is what the transplant Doc, Dr. Kewalramani, said it would be.
I’ll be talking to Dr. K tomorrow and hope to get the conditional approval on discharge.
For the next two months, I will have to modify my activity, as well as have some dietary changes. Initially I will see Dr. K once a week, and then less often as the two months progresses. Will write more about these aspects of things as my discharge becomes more imminent.
I am suffering from chemo fatigue, from my six days of chemotherapy from the ninth to the fourteenth. My red blood cell counts are askew, and today I had my fourth transfusion of platelets. All standard stuff, nothing out of the ordinary
Only sour note of the day was that my oldest son Joe had a fever this morning and had to stay home from school. Should clear up by Sunday, if it doesn’t we’ll have to live in separate sections of the house when I get home!
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