Chemotherapy started today. It was a 2 hour dose. It began at 1:30 and was over a little after 3:30. Ryan will have a second dose of this same drug on Thursday. This morning his white count was 51.3, up a little from yesterday, but not a huge growth, so that was good news. His platelets were 16, they were 10 before a transfusion yesterday and 38 after the transfusion, but down to 16 this morning. After Ryan took a shower, the area where his picc line went in was bleeding and so the dressing had to be changed a second time. They gave him platelets again. I'm not sure what the count was after the platelets.
The chemotherapy that Ryan is getting can cause some of the chemistries in his blood to get out of whack, so they check those levels every 6 hours with this chemo. At 6:00 tonight, everything looked normal (with the chemistries). When I left, Ryan's fever had dropped to around normal - 98.9. When I called him around 8:30 tonight, his fever was back up - to 104.2. I spoke to the nurse and they had given him tylenol and put ice packs on him to cool him down. Right now they are watching his fever. They are also watching his heart rate. At some point tonight it was up over 200 and so they did an EKG. The EKG results were normal, PTL. They will continue to watch the fever and heart rate through the night.
Ryan was more alert today than he has been since Saturday. He had some pain in his left side a couple different times today, but pain medicine took care of that. The doctor is aware of that pain and will monitor it, but they didn't see too concerned with it as this point.
I am a bit concerned about the fever, but I know he's had fevers for a few days before and they have finally fallen. He is on 2 antibiotics, although the cultures they took in the ER Sunday night haven't grown anything yet.
I will be away from Ryan until Thursday evening, so please pray for all of us as Aubrey and I aren't with him to watch over him.
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We are praying for all of you tonight. I have passed on the word and asked for help from friends here in Leesburg. Hang in there Ryan, we know your strong enough to whip it. Let us know if there is anything else we can do.
ReplyDeleteAndy & Ashley Shoemaker & family. Leesburg,Ohio
We are praying and recruiting other prayer warriors as well! Ryan is a fighter, and our God is in the business of miracles. We will keep praying for a complete and lifelong healing to the glory of the Lord.
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~Jill S.
Jesus said, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it." -John 11:4
April-
ReplyDeleteI just looked at this again for the first time in a little while - since the updates that Ryan is on chemo again. My heart sank for you, but your strength and faith continue to amaze me. We will keep praying.
gretta
The Schilling's are in prayer for both you and Ryan. I just read a message that I hope will help you April, it is from Romans 8:26,"And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness." Just keep the faith and Our God will help us through. Donna
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