Changing

There were changes today, I'm not sure that things are better or worse, just changed a bit. Ryan's temperature steadily came down during the day, it was 99.9 at 7:00 though, up a little bit from earlier this afternoon. Ryan got platelets this morning and it caused them to go up by 25, but this evening he was having nosebleeds. The nurse, Sarah, didn't think that they were bad enough that he needed platelets again and she didn't sound like it would be good to give platelets again this soon, but they were going to watch them.

Ryan was able to go to the bathroom a couple of times today, the 2nd time he went he thought he might be moving towards diarrhea, so I guess they'll be watching that now as well. Ryan's white count was 200 again today. The nurse thought that his throat looked a little less red today. I thought that he acted like it didn't hurt quite so bad, but he's still having plenty of trouble eating and so soup is on the menu at just about every meal.

Thank you to our friend Carolyn, whose husband is also here at OSU getting a transplant, for bringing me to my apartment tonight. We met Carolyn and Jerry at Miami Valley and they came to OSU two days after we did. Jerry is just a couple of days behind Ryan.

We ask that you keep both Ryan and Jerry in your prayers that they will both be strong for another day tomorrow.

-A