U of C Day 1 (take two)

It was a long day today. Leo and I got to the hospital at 8 this morning as the plan was to give him a few units of platelets to bring up his counts. His counts needed to be about 75,000 to reduce the risk of bleeding when the put the Hickman line in. His first platelet count in the morning was 20,000 which is really high for him, but good, as it meant the unit he got yesterday was holding pretty well. So they gave him one unit and took his counts again. They only went up 7,000. Another unit of platelets and his count actually went down to 26,000. So now the doctors were confused, as his hemoglobin count was going down as well. He had no fevers, no bleeding and fluids were running through his system OK, so at this point, we still don't know what is going on with his counts. Since they could not get his platelet counts up, they could not insert his Hickman line, as the risk of bleeding was too high. In lieu of that, they put in a temporary line that they can still administer the chemo meds and other meds through, but cannot stay in long term. But it will serve the purposes that he needs for now.



So after the line was inserted, Leo was finally admitted to his room in the transplant unit. He is still on schedule tomorrow to begin his chemo, which will run through the weekend and theTBI will start on Monday. He is in his room now and just resting as he was pretty drugged for the line insertion.

I just created another Skype account as I installed it on the laptop that Leo will have here at the hospital. I don't have a camera yet, but just so you have it, our ID is bernadette_rivera.

Have a great evening and please say an extra prayer tonight for Leo. :)