Family and friends,
Last night we had a long night with a new nurse who was too busy to be bothered with myself, Bob's Aunt April and Uncle Tom. Without going into too much detail, we had to escalate the nurse's behavior to both the nursing supervisor as well as the ICU director. That nurse will no longer be taking care of Bob. As of 6am this morning, Bob's counts have gone up platelets to 118,000 white blood to 3.9, and red to 8.4 (not as high as it was, but better than yesterday when it was 7.9)
The bleed test from yesterday came back postive and they did determine that Bob has an active bleed in his small bowel and they believe it is limited to this area. The next step in trying to fix this is either to do surgery to remove the affected bowel, which they do not recommend because Bob is still not 100%, or do complete a less invasive angiography where a coil is inserted into his thigh and fished up into his bowel where they inject the sites with dye to determine exactly where the bleed is coming from. While they are doing this they will either try to embolize the bleed site or inject it with medicine to make it stop bleeding. The procedure should take about 30 minutes and afterward they will call me to advise of the successfulness. At that time I will speak to the GI doctor as well.
That's about it. Please pray for Bob, he's on the road to recovery. Stopping the bleed should hopefully be the last big hurdle.
Love and thanks,
Michele
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Hang in there!! He's fighting this a little at a time and it's working! We are praying for Bob everyday! He's beaten the AML, so he can beat the rest of the complications too!! Try to stay positive! We love you guys!
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Christy, Tim and Nicky
Let's do it Bob. Stay Positive - stop the bleeding and I'll see you very soon. Power of the Prayer!
ReplyDeleteCome on, Bob! You can do this! Stay strong, Michele. You, Bob & Christopher are constantly in my prayers.
ReplyDeleteLeslie Flick