Freedom...Maybe...

Well after a long visit today with Mom, sitting with her through the first bag of blood, we have some good news!!!! Mom's neutrophil numbers are going up :). When Mom first went to the hospital, her neutrophil. numbers were at 0.1. They were up yesterday to 0.3 and today they are up to 0.7. If they get up to 1 or higher then Mom should be able to go home tomorrow (Thursday). Mom is keeping her fingers crossed that they go up and that she is able to go home-she's getting a wee bit stir crazy!!!!'

The transfusion went ahead this afternoon as planned. The first bag of blood was hooked up at around 2:45pm this afternoon and took 2 1/2 hours to go through. Of course, it wasn't helping that her machine kept stopping every few minutes saying there was a blockage somewhere, when this would happen, Mom would ring for her nurse to come in to take a look at it and as soon as she would press the button, the "blockage" would clear up on its own and start running again. Thankfully, Mom's nurse was great and managed to move her IV needle around a bit so that the blood would flow more freely. Between the two bags of blood used for the transfusion, Mom and I took a trip down to the cafeteria to go get some EDIBLE food, as Mom's dinner was less than desirable-the smell was enough to make Mom, myself, and Mom's roommate gag until they took it away. Shortly before 7pm they started the second bag and if all went well, it should have finished up around 10pm this evening.

Dr. Pansegrau came by again to see Mom and to let her know a couple things. They have put her next chemo treatment off for a couple weeks so that Mom can get the portacath put in (by the sounds of it, he has put a rush on it to get this put in, as Mom doesn't have many-if any-viable veins left for IV's/blood work) and to also give her body a bit of a break.