Thursday
Unit 1
Weight: 13.85
Nurses: Kristy
WBC: 0.3
Well, today started with your red blood cells being low however, you would never know. You have so much energy and look healthy. They did order you a transfusion, but after talking with the doctors we are going to hold off. The more transfusions you have the more increase risk you have in the future so if we can delay with the hopes of your counts to recover on their own, we will.
In rounds today, they discovered that the antibiotics you are now on will have to be switched as they will increase the Methatrexate levels and we need to start the Methatrexate as soon as your counts recover. We don't want to delay your treatment plan so we need to make the switch now. You are on antibiotics for 14 days now, which are administered every 8 hours. We have tried to time them so you can get out of the hospital at noon and won't need to be back until 8 pm. We can go over to RMH, go for a drive or a walk in the middle of the day, which will be nice. Your counts have not yet recovered so we need to be careful with where we go so you don't get another infection. It is disappointing that you won't be able to go home in between this cycle due to the infection but we can hope that possibly you can make it home at the beginning of July.
This post was not posted...lol...better late then never.
Love Dad
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