Hi everyone 😊
Today marks 2 weeks since Jimmy went into hospital and Monday will be 2 weeks post transplant. The time has really dragged.
It was a day of ups and downs for Jimmy today. I’m just thankful I could be back visiting him again.
His white blood cell count is 1.3 💥💥. This is definitely a sign that the graft is starting to take 😍. Platelets are 29 so another platelets transfusion and another blood transfusion as his haemaglobin is at 7.4. Dr Botha says that once the white blood cell count starts to climb it will take about 5 days to see an improvement with his platelets.
Blood pressure today was 95/72 and back down to 79/62 and then slightly up again. So they increased the adrenaline, although he only needs 1/3 of what he was having before. They had to increase his oxygen today as his reading was 91.
Dr Botha said he was going to do a script for some morphine as Jimmy is in quite a bit of pain. But I’m not sure what or where the pain is. He is complaining about his tummy being terribly uncomfortable so maybe it’s the inflammation in the lining of his gut. The big sore at the back of Jimmy’s mouth has started healing but he has quite a few going down his throat and Dr Botha says that if they in his throat he will definitely have sores going down into his tummy now.
Jimmy tried 3 teaspoons of oats for breakfast but wanted to vomit each time. So for now his still on intravenous meals and shakes. He is going to try some soup this evening.
His diarrhea is up and down too. He had another low grade fever last night and this morning his temp was 35.9 but that also went up around lunch time today.
So for now he is all over the place. But over the next week things will improve as his body gets stronger. And soon after this we will see a positive trend.
Have a great weekend!
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