Ryan had to get up early, early today to be into Wayne Hospital at 7:00 to have blood drawn. The doctor's office needed to see his platelet count to be sure that it was high enough for him to have surgery. At 9:20, they hadn't yet called to tell us whether to head to the hospital or not, but we had to take Aubrey to my mom and so we set off . . . finally when we were in Greenville, we got a call that the surgery was on so we headed on to Dayton.
They were actually running ahead of schedule in the surgery department and although Ryan's surgery was scheduled to begin at 1:00, they took him by 12:30. The doctor came out to talk with me by 1:20. Everything went fine and they have his new port in. He is a little sore around the site, but nothing major.
He came back to his room around 3:30 and slept until supper time, ate, and then fell back asleep. When I called him about 8:00, I woke him up. He told me that after I left they had gotten his blood results back from after the surgery and his white count had gone down, so they had to wait for another test before they could be sure it was safe to start chemo. He finally called around 9:45 and they had gotten all figured out. The chemo is started. He'll be done with the drugs sometime Saturday morning, probably get to come home on Sunday.
We got some results of his bone marrow biopsy back today. In the part that they just look at things in the microscope, they couldn't see any leukemia cells. The doctor ordered some other, more sophisticated tests and those results should be back tomorrow.
Pray for Ryan to make it through this round well.
-A
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