Day 23

After a busy weekend, we are back home this evening from Kansas City and a really good time at Carl's cousin's wedding.

All weekend, I checked in with Mom about Dad and the reports were good. His numbers continued to rise. His platelets, hemoglobin and hematocrit numbers also continue to hold and in the platelet's case, improve! As of yesterday, Dad's white cell count was at 1.2 and his ANC was in the 900s. He needs to be at 1000 for the ANC to even think about going home. Apparently his physician told him maybe in 3-4 more days he could go home, but he had to continue to try and eat, move, exercise and just stay stable.

Well....this afternoon, I guess, Dad was in the shower and his heart started acting up where he could feel it going a-fib (atrial fibrulation). He got out and had a little dizzy spell and of course, called the nurses. They all freaked out and now he's a little nervous about everything. Personally, I think it is anxiety triggering it and his lack of food intake etc, but I'm not a doctor.

Yesterday, I know, Dad was up and trying to walk a bit and exercised on the stationary bike for about 10 minutes. That alone wore him out.

I am going up to see him tomorrow afternoon, so I'll see how he looks then. Mom just said everything on the inside with his counts is doing what it's supposed to, now he just needs to be feeling a little stronger to do what he needs to in order to get out of there.

I can't wait for him to come home this time! I'm hoping for later this week, or at the latest, the weekend! That would be a great gift!

Talk to you soon!