"Just the Facts"-- Another torturous night of no sleep due to pain. Trying to stay out of that bed for as much as he can. But doing better with food and not quite as foggy in the head.
So various Doctors have been in to check on B and the issue he is having with his pain. Skeletal muscular some think, some think the rabbit serum, but the big D, his specialist says that he just isn't one to be in bed and should be out on his board. B liked that. His Doctor is a surfer himself, however limited due to time constraints, but when visiting B, never fails to comment on the really nice picture B has in his room of him surfing. My brother in law took the shot, a great photographer, and it captures the Doctor sight every time. He mentioned that he would like a shot of himself like that! Anyway it was nice for B to find some common ground with this well known Doctor that wasn't medical.
B seems to me to be handling things a bit better. Now the course is to watch those blood counts start to rise. To that end he got his first injection of the rejuvenator. A type of catalyst if you will. This will come along side those super cells and give them a boost in the production center work. We won't start to see activity yet, but they say around day +11 or +12 something should start showing. Then the counts should grow exponentially once they begin to show. The only bummer is the shot, however little, burns when injected. Today for his first shot, he immediately got a hematoma where the injection was. This is primarily due to the low platelets. So his next shot will have to go in the tummy. ugh. So, one more new phase to wrestle with. But this is the beginning of the end of the hospital. Once his numbers begin to rise and sustain themselves and everything else stays under control, then home becomes a real possibility. Keep in mind this is still at least a week or more away, but that thought is still very nice. A prayer would be that he can handle these shots daily, and that they would perform as intended and help the super cells get to work. Also a good night sleep would go a long way!
until next time,
Hopeful Believer.
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