MDS Becomes AML - Hospital Discharge Rated A

Daily Mitch Report – Saturday, February 06, 2010
This hospital discharge gets an A. When Leena (aka Leena the Elder) and I got to the hospital around 11 a.m. for a visit, Dr. Sharma was writing the discharge orders, and Mitch was out and home by 2 p.m. So this hospital discharge will be submitted to the Guinness Book of Records. After a bowl of cream of wheat he climbed the stairs, crawled into his own bed and fell asleep. He is not up to cartwheels yet.

Nurse Kelly reported that today Mitch had the best blood work scores on the entire oncology wing with platelets at 22, hemoglobin 10.3, WBC 5.5 and hematocrit 24.5, That’s very good for Mitch.

I’ll take him to Dr. Sharma’s during the week to monitor the blood. We are advised to see the bone marrow transplant doctor sooner rather than later so Dr. Sharma will try to intervene and get us an appointment before Feb. 18 which they’ve told me is the first available. We all want to know what comes next. Nardi is being checked as a donor and we’re awaiting results.

Meanwhile Mitch is oh so happy just to be home. And for the weather report….what about the heralded snow? For all those of you who got 23 inches or have no power, we didn’t get a flake.

Penny, Mitch and Laina