It's a one time thing.... It just happens alot....

After the big scare this week and the mumblings of the dreaded "R word", the seven million blood tests, blood cultures, ultra sounds, chest scans, and other CT Scans, the flood of antibiotics IV's, and the 1500 mg of Prednisone, (whew!) the results this morning were all pretty much normal with the exceptions of a few small issues such as (in a complete flip of the past 15 years) I now need MORE protein in my diet, I need more albumin, more iron, and most of this is addressable through diet. 

    My Stat Blood Lab Order on Tuesday

My white blood count is still a bit high, but no fever for the past 24 hours. There is some accumulated fluid around both of the organs but none of the docs seem too concerned about this and expect it to be eventually absorbed. As far as the elevated Amylase & Lipase levels the doctors have a few possible theories but without any one smoking gun these are only possible culprits. 

Now my tx coordinator, and my tx "Coach" Jan, whose guidance has been invaluable throughout these past three years, have both told me to expect these

occasional blips on the road to tx recovery almost to the point that they are dang near inevitable at one time or another. I'm just looking at these last two visits here as two of my blips right outta' the gate and now I'm looking forward to some smooth road for a stretch.

God willing.

The main point to keep in mind through all of this craziness is that the two new organs continue to function fantastically.

Even with all the Prednisone my blood sugar has not gone higher than the 140's

and my creatinine is .09.

Today has just been a wait 'n see day.

Dr. Yang was in first thing this morning and after explaining my tests and fielding my questions he explained that he wanted to be reasonably sure that when I leave this time that I won't be back within a few hours. So he has pulled me off all IV therapies, continued everything else, and I am being watched, monitored, and tested to be sure the fever doesn't come charging back, heart rate and BP stay in check, etc.. So I'm walking around the floor (not many steps like home) but then just taking it easy, just like home. 

Now if no ugly monsters raise their heads

even without all the IV meds and all systems stay green then possibly I may get to go home tomorrow. Maybe.

If only.

So you know what I know and the definitive word will probably come early tomorrow morning.

I'll be sure to let you know