Guess what? We're going home!!! Brian's recovery has been amazing over the past couple of days. His creatinine has dropped steadily and is now 3.5 (normal is around 1, so we still have a ways to go but we're safely "out of the woods"), white blood cell count jumped from 0.7 to 1.9 today, and all other labs are holding steady. He hasn't needed any transfusions over the past 2 days, so platelets and hemoglobin are maintaining - they still have a long time before they're normal, but at least he's not continuing to drop each day. Electrolytes still need some tweaking, but that's not too big of a deal. So he'll have clinic appointments tomorrow and the next day and then hopefully they'll drop down to 3 days a week - so basically we spent our busiest time in the hospital.
He officially started losing his hair two days ago and decided to shave it all off yesterday...but as of right now eyebrows, eyelashes, etc haven't started coming out. Here are some pics!
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| Hair's falling out...very patchy so it's got to go! |
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| Action shot! We thought stripes would be a good look...! |
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| Notice he's near the exit sign...ready to flee when they give him the "okay" |
Yay!!! So happy for you! Kim and John
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ReplyDeleteSo great to hear things are looking up!
ReplyDeleteSuperb news! Brilliant stuff! Home for Christmas too! Well done to you Brian, Kristy and the rest of the team - it's so good to see Brian looking happy again! Ali, Ciara and Brendan xxx
ReplyDeleteSo happy for you all ..Brilliant to see you going home and looking so much better..Loving the hair cut!!!Looking good.....Lots of love...xxxxxJean, Paul and gang...
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