Well, I got to visit Dad. I just couldn't bring the kids, since they still have some booger action going on from their last cold. Actually, I'm sitting with him in the family room right now. (He says hi.) We had Saigon since the hospital brought him an un-nameable meat substance for supper. Yum. Saigon. I say any excuse is a good reason to break out the spring rolls.
Enough about me though... Dad's feeling pretty good. His fever is down, it's usually around 37.3. (He was 38.6 when he came in on Saturday.) His neck is still store. Still no word on what that is, but the word on the street seems to lean towards some kind of infection.
As for his stem cells... The counts are still at zero, which means there are no stem cells to be harvested in his blood stream yet. The word on the street is that the fever may be the reason for that. They are going to stay with the same injections till Wednesday. If there are still no stem cells they will look at other options.
The first option is to try a new drug to push the stem cells into his blood stream. This can only happen if his kidneys are strong enough.
If that doesn't work then they look at some of the older methods of getting stem cells from his bone marrow. We are praying that the injections work since older methods are more intrusive and would be harder on Dad.
If that doesn't work then the last option would be to get stem cells from a donor which would be much riskier, involve a longer hospital stay, and would not be able to happen in Saskatoon.
So pray that the injections start working.
I hope I got that right. Mom and Dad are both sitting here, so you'd think they'd help, but Dad's ignoring me to chat with Mike about construction and Mom'a ignoring me for her puzzle. (Ang is NO help at all since she's consumed with trying to force all of us to play CSI: The Board Game.)
Monday, December 3, 2007
Come on Stem Cells!
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4 comments:
Except for the location it sounds like a normal famiy get-together.
Don't weaken Ang, make them play the game.
I'm so glad the you got to go see your Dad. That must have made him happy to have you all there. We will be praying for all of the things you mentioned. WE love you and miss seeing you all.
My thoughts and prayers are with your family.
Take care.
CSI - the board game. We played that a couple of times with David and Carolyn.
We will continue to pray, also.
I would sure like to join you for some of those Saigon spring rolls.
So sorry to hear that John is back in the hospital. Wish we could just come for a visit.
Strangely no one here is sick or even has been sick.
We will be praying for all of you.
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