I just wanted to give all of you a heads-up on Ana’s platelet counts.   As most of you know, her counts were up to right around 300,000 after getting her spleen removed.  They stayed this way for a couple weeks, but two weeks ago she dropped down to 64,000. Yikes, we were a little freaked out, but a week ago she went up to 224,000 without changing any medicines or getting any other types of treatments.  Very encouraging since in the past her counts never increased without some intervention.

Due to that increase, she has resumed her taper off of the steroid prendison.  This week she dropped down to 15mg/day so we expected her counts to be down as a result.  Nope, this morning she was tested and she’s at 384,000. Woo!

She hasn’t heard from the doctor yet, but we’re expecting to be able to drop to 10mg/day.  Wait..what is that?!  Is that the light at the end of the tunnel?  We’re sure hoping so.  Thanks everyone for your thoughts and prayers.

That’s the number of platelets floating around Ana’s body today.  A marked improvement over her previous dismal countings of 7,000 and 10,000.

So that was the real, first post-spleen-removal test they’ve gotten counts from her on.  Definitely a positive sign.  More tests next week to keep verifying.

Thanks again to everyone for all of your help, prayers, and good wishes!

She’s recovery now, surgery went well.  Can’t wait to get in and see her!

Just got a phone call from surgery, Ana is stable and doing well and the surgeon has started working on her (roughly 25 minutes ago).

On a side note, there’s gotta be a better way to notify me of updates.  The waiting room librarian walking over and saying she’s going to forward a call to me, scared the HELL out of me.  Honestly, it felt like my heart was going to jump staright out of my chest.  Damn, gotta calm down now.

Well she’s in surgery now.  In roughly 2 hours that evil spleen will be no more!

184,000, IV getting started and the surgeon is en-route.

Hi everyone -

Ana is all checked in here at St. John’s Hospital.  The splenectomy is scheduled for 3pm so we’re waiting in a little hallway with curtains called pre-aenestesia.