Friday - bottle of whites

Well today Trish was due for a bottle of whites (platelets). Her platelet count was 21 today and the magic number is usually 20. So they are filling her up today. Not sure if we will need to come in over the weekend or not yet. Trish still has her black and blue on the eye and shoulder from the fall Sunday, but she feels pretty good, just the usual headache.

Her blood counts have not started to come back yet. White count is still less than 50. Not really sure how long it will be befre it starts to come back, but we don't really expect it back until around the 17th -- not sure if that means a start to come back or back by than, we'll just wait and see.

The boys are cominig up next weekend for mothers day. I think they will enjoy spending time with Trish at Aunt Mary's much more than their last visit when she was in the hospital. Stay tuned....hopefully we'll start seeing some white cells next week.

Well, we thought we were going home....The nurse couldn't flush Trish's purple line (she has two lines on her PICC, purple and red). So we had to get an x-ray and probably some strong clot busting meds before we can go home. This nurse says we should be flushing her lines on the off days. When Trish first got the picc we were told that we didn' need to flush it daily like we did the Hickman that she had the first time. So our long day is getting longer. We should be off this weekend though, not back till Monday. The graphic at the top of this post is from Julie Meryl's cafe press store http://www.juliemeryl.com , she has some cool designs for Leukemics.