November 4th

Friday Tia was moved to the ICU today as some complications set in from the after effects of the high doses of chemo she had been taking. To summarize, she has no white blood cells so any infection can be very serious. She spiked a mild fever on wednesday and had a lot of pain in her abdomen.  As we wanted to make sure everything was covered they saw her on Wednesday and started her on flagil and then they admitted her yesterday and gave her a number of different antibiotics. Her blood pressure continued to drop and her fever did not abate. As there is only so much they can do on the regular floors they moved her to the ICU this afternoon so they can administer higher doses of dopamine and other blood pressure meds. The pain has now abated and her blood has recovered somewhat (to 79 over 37 to 85 over 41). She is extremely alert mentally and was just on the phone redecorating some rooms in our house. Unbelievable. The plan is she will remain in the ICU until her blood pressure stays above 90 without the meds. Then she will be moved back to the regular ward. At the moment she cannot have visitors other than family but as that changes I will let you know. Keep her in your prayers. Thanks Jess and the girls PS they just gave her more dopamine and her BP is up to 102. It is more volatile then the market!