Discharged!

No, you did not misread the title of this post - "Discharged!" As surprised as some of you may be, I was even more surprised how fast it all came about. On Saturday evening I found out that my "counts", neutrophils (the germ fighting cells) had started to come back as of the day before. The Dr came in Sunday morning to tell me that he would be cutting back my antibiotics and if I stayed fever free I would be discharged on Wednesday. I could not believe it, I felt so awful on Sunday, how could this be? Well, as the antibiotics were cut back, I did stay fever free, felt a bit better and I was discharged a few hours ago. Stephen and I are staying in St. Louis for the moment because my counts are still recovering and I am still at risk for infections, pretty weak and tired too. I do need to be here for my labs and bone marrow aspiration on Tuesday; the results of which will then determine what happens next.

I must say that I enjoyed a great double shabbat with Stephen in St Louis Skyping with my mom and Saul, and then a few hours later Gene, Julia, and Daniel and I made shabbat again! On Saturday, Kelly and Kurt drove down for the afternoon and that was quite a treat! Unfortunately, I was not in shape for a visit from Kari and Eli on Sunday. I did resolve and was able to visit with Mac and Ann who came to visit me yesterday afternoon and we enjoyed a lovely visit!

So, for the moment communicating by email is best because I am not sure where I will be between now and Tuesday.

Stay tuned...

Deborah