Well, today is a lot of the same with Carol. She is still on the ventilator, still minimally responsive, still in kidney and liver failure and still battling sepsis. Unfortunately they discovered that she also has a yucky hospital acquired respiratory infection that could cause pneumonia. The antibiotic of choice, however, is really hard on your kidneys, so they aren't starting it just yet - they are consulting the infectious disease specialist first. Although she is no longer bleeding in several places, her platelets are remaining very low and she is continuing to receive frequent platelet transfusions.
BUT, there was some very good news today too. They did a CT and there is NO bleeding in her brain! This is a big deal because it increases our hope that she will become alert and responsive when the Versed completely wears off...which could take a few more days. The doctor also seems fairly hopeful that her liver is starting to recover (although the labs are only slightly better) and said that statistically two thirds of people with her type of kidney failure do regain kidney function. A lot of stars have to align, but there is some hope. Her cancer treatment is on hold for now. They talked about doing another bone marrow aspiration, but since her CBC showed normal white blood cells they are going to wait on that for now. So far they have seen no blast cells which is a fairly good indication that the leukemic cells are not building back up in her bone marrow.
Philip, Tamara and Allen are planning on coming home on Sunday at the earliest. They really want to be there when she wakes up. Levi and I sure do miss Philip, but I am glad he is able to be there with his Mom. Please keep praying.
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Y'all are in my thoughts and prayers daily!
We are praying for all of you.
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