Since Ana has surgery tomorrow at 3pm and they told her that she can’t eat anything after midnight, the only logical thing to do is to have a feast around 11pm the night before! So, Jay and Katherine are here and we’re getting ready to throw some steak and chicken on the grill. This is our [...]
Entries Tagged as 'itp'
Splenectomy
March 19th, 2008 · Comments Off · General
Ana has been seeing a new doctor for her ITP these past couple of months. His recommendation has been to get her spleen removed since it appears to be the source of her platelet issue. In preparation of the surgery, which was to be in a couple weeks from now, she has been weaning off [...]
Prednisone
February 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · General
Ana had her 2-week visit with the new hematologist, and her platelets levels were the same as they were 2 weeks ago so that apparently finally “proves” that prednisone isn’t helping. Glad it took 5 months for that to be clear. Anyway, she’s going to start the weaning process – dropping her dosage 10mg/week while [...]
ITP Update
February 11th, 2008 · 7 Comments · General
We had the second meeting with Ana’s new hematologist today. Some good things and some less-desirable things came out of it. Good things: Liver and Spleen scan came back negative for any abnormailities 4 or 5 other tests came back negative Test for blood platelet antibodies came back positive This doctor knows that a 9:40am [...]
A quick update on Ana
February 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · General
Along with my recent job change, Ana gave notice to her current employer (Wells Fargo) and accepted a job offer at Memorial Medical Center where she’ll be doing some good ‘ol IT Project Management. She’s slated to start on February 18th. Congratulations Ana! On a health note, we have gotten a second opinion on the [...]
Someone stole your platelets
January 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · General
That’s what the nurse told Ana today after getting her blood tested. Bad results, she’s down to 15,000. She was just about weaned off the prednisone, but is now getting bumped back up and will be tested again next week.
Cured!
December 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments · General
Well, it seems that I’m normal and my ITP was pregnancy induced. We made our second outing for my first post hospital blood count today and I am at 110,000 for my platelet levels. The low end of normal, but still normal. I think we may have also forgotten to mention that David had his [...]
Trip Out
December 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments · General
We’re about to make our second trip out. Today we need to run to the Springfield Clinic so Ana can get her first blood test post-pregnancy. We’re crossing our fingers that her platelet levels have at least stayed steady (100k+) and hopefully risen substantially. Yesterday I finished the first cut of the DVD chronicling David’s [...]
