Prayers
are being answered!
Great news today after the stressful time we went
through yesterday. Ray's blood counts are finally slowly rebounding today, including the organ numbers. His liver &
kidney sonograms from yesterday came back with good results. The swelling in his hands is a little better & slightly less painful.The throat pain is a little
better today & can only get better as his immune system begins to
climb & start fighting off these nasty side effects! His throat is still painful but he's bull-dogging through it! He did do a little better with eating at breakfast & lunch today.
But the BEST news is that during the night & all this morning
his heart quit going into A-Fib therefore the cardiac doctor said he won't need to
have the stroke prevention meds! Of course they
will continue to monitor him closely in case the heart would start
acting goofy again at which point they would reconsider those meds
again. But the hope is that all the problems yesterday were just a
temporary thing & won't happen again!!!
Ray still hasn't shed all the extra fluid that his body is retaining but they're giving him a diuretic to help. At least he didn't gain another 12 pounds over night! But he hasn't lost any of that yet either.
Needless to say, Ray wasn't able to walk his normal two miles per day in here over the past few days but today he did manage 1/4 of a mile with the help of a walker.
Yep, yesterday was very tense & we felt real fear that Ray was beginning to have the side-effects we had prayed wouldn't happen. It sounds like whenever one's counts begin that turn around, it happens pretty quickly. Indications are that if he stays on course he may even be released from the hospital by as early as this coming Wednesday. Of course we'll still be coming back to the hospital on a daily basis for blood work, etc. for several weeks to come.
We're not out
of the woods just yet but we're beginning to see the light at the end of the
tunnel. Thank you everyone for the caring messages & prayers!
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