Saturday morning
Tia's blood pressure is up above 90 and she is off blood pressure meds. She does have an infection (the classification is gram negative) and will need to stay in the hospital for a while. The doctor thought it could be for a week to 10 days but that could change. Also, she may just stay in and go straight to chemo next week if the MRI shows that the tumor is shrinking.
The good news is that while they don't know exactly what the infection is, given that her BP is up and her fever is down, they don't expect it to be a really bad infection. Her white counts remain virtually at zero however, so no infection can be taken for granted.
We certainly wish we could be out of the hospital today to celebrate with our friends the Byer's (wedding), Friedman's (bar mitzvah) and Ressler's (bar mitzvah). We can't wait to see the photos of the happy events!
I am making Tia watch hours and hours of horse racing this weekend as it is breeder's cup. Luckily, she enjoys the ponies.
Tia can only have limited visitors in ICU and all the girls are coming today. Starting tomorrow she can have visitors, so if you want to visit please email me so I can make sure we don't run too far afoul of the hospital rules on visitors. Next week she should be back on the regular floors, so visit away!
As always, thanks
Jess and the girls
Love the blog...thanks to Ede for creating it...and to Jess for the really great updates! Love you Tia...will skype as soon as you're sprung from the ICU ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the update and the much better news. Enjoy the ponies today and we hope you win your races! Love to you all and a big hug to Tia from us.
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Jess, thank you for providing the updates and making them so easy to understand for those of us without "Dr." in front of our names. Ede, thank you for starting the blog and making the updates so readily available. I love you both, Aunt Vera
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