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Day 20: Red Sox win the American League East

Saturday, September 29, 2007 - After another nicely-therapeutic pizza-and-games-on-the-hospital-bed-Friday night, Chris got to head home after one more marathon five-day stint at the hospital. I brought the newly-released Season 6 of Smallville (our favorite TV show) and we watched a couple of episodes. At one point Mady told me, "Dad, you should get your cot ready... it's almost midnight... Mom's going to kill us!"

We had an uneventful night. She was "off the hook" and we both slept pretty well... even with the blood draw and vitals by nurse Susan at 2:00 AM. One bit of early morning good news is confirmation that her blood sugar is no longer too high, 100 at 2:00 AM, and she doesn't need insulin shots for now... at least until they start her on the Decadron again.

We woke to learn that the Red Sox had clinched the American League East title last night after their Fenway win against the Twins combined with a juicy Yankee 3-run meldown in the 9th inning against the Orioles. Mady thought the news was "pretty cool"--hey, I think she's becoming a huge Red Sox fan!

Dr Yowker, the current resident on today's rotation, and her team came in at 9:00 AM to examine Mady and check out a "tingle" that she had in her left foot yesterday. They basically gave her what looked like a field sobriety test, and had her walk around on her toes and heals. Then they listened to her chest and back, and said that all is good. After temporarily ending the powerful Decadron steroid, they have her on the powerful Hydrocortisone steroid to ease her system back... ah, the nuances of medicine. Nurse Juliette will give her a couple of units of whole blood this morning after her Lovinox blood thinner shot, along with a number of important little white pills and various liquids taken orally.

Her treatment protol is perfect, in my opinion. I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV...

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1 comment:

Jane Sherwin said...

Trey, you and Chris between you are writing a book I do believe. Just watched movie 'Defending Your Life' with Albert Brooks & Meryl Streep-when you go to heaven it's not heaven but 'judgment city' where you have to demonstrate, using scenes from your life, that you were able to overcome your fears. So all I can say is that you two would do that easily, hands down, no question. God love you and keep you through Day 29 and beyond. And, I say, stay up till midnight every night, unless you have homework!! Love from all of us.

September 29, 2007 at 10:18 PM

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