Today I am feeling quite a bit better, my counts look fairly good today but that doesn't mean we will need platelets or blood tomorrow. Yesterday was a long day, having the cultures come back positive for infection in the catheter Dr. Feldman said that it needed to come out and come out that day. I had an ultrasound in my left calf because I said that it felt strained, he was concerned me laying in bed so much and off my blood thinner he wanted to make sure there was no clot. All checked out. I then moved on to the other department to have a temporary triple leuman catheter placed so they could give me multiple fluids while I am in the hospital. Finally last night a doctor came to my room and literally tugged the infected leukaphresis catheter out of my chest.
Today I was up out of bed more, walking around the floor and sitting in the chair in my room. I watched a lot of the US Open today. Saw Dr. Feldman before he left for the weekend, he said it will likely be Sun/Mon to get released.
Hopefully sooner than later. That is all of the update to this point.
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Your post here reminds me of the time I got my cath pulled out. OMG! Why they think a local helps, I have no idea. I was just a couple of months into dialysis and the darned thing got infected, so had to go to the surgeon's office and he decides to yank it out right then and there. Let's just say I dropped the FBomb on him and then apologized profusely afterwards. Here's hoping to good news on Monday so you can get back to HL. Hang in there John. If there's anything we can send you from the Denver area that you like or miss, we'll hook you up! Let us know! - Jude
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