The best news of the day is that Ryan's white count went up to 400 today. I hope that means that his counts are on the way up, but we'll have to see what they do tomorrow before we say that they are. The doctors said that in 2-3 days they would begin giving him some of his medicines in pill form to see if he can tolerate them. They are also planning on turning his morphine back to the lowest dose to see how he gets along with a little less pain medicine because he won't be able to go home with a pain pump.
Ryan said he had one small nosebleed tonight, but nothing major like he had Friday and Saturday. His platelets were 29 today and I would imagine that if they drop much by tomorrow that he'll have to get platelets because they probably won't let them get too low to keep his nose from bleeding so much. Ryan's hemoglobin went up both yesterday and today on its own.
My mom, Aubrey, and I got to the hospital around 7:30 to visit Ryan tonight. I had to wake him up to take him out to the waiting room to see Aubrey, but they enjoyed seeing each other. Aubrey's face lit up when she saw Ryan coming through the door. She played with him some and gave him a couple of kisses. It was fun to see.
It has been a long day, about time for bed.
Pray that his counts continue to rise as they're supposed to and that the sores that he still has in his mouth begin to clear up.
-A
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