Recovery Day 21...

is three weeks since the transplant. I continue to be grateful for the wonders of modern medicine and those who have the education and wisdom to help others with their knowledge. Last night was bad, as I mentioned. Ian continued to throw up until 3 AM and he had the runs through the night. The vomit stopped finally, but the runs were also an all day thing. We went and had labs drawn, and the numbers weren't too good. They believe it was largely due to dehyrdation. The poor kid drank and drank to keep up, but he vomited water twice (at least). Makes it dang near impossible to meet your body's needs when that happens.

So at clinic, they first advised us that we were going to be readmitted to the hospital. They hooked Ian up to an IV (through his PICC line) and started giving him fluids. This helped enough by the time they were nearly done that they decided to cancel admitting him and let us take him back to the Ronald McDonald House. He got his staples removed, and received some medicine before this to make it easier to get the staples out. The stuff makes him loopy, so its pretty funny overall. They replaced the staples with SteriStrips, and 'home' we came. He ate pretty well, not surprisingly, but after meds he decided he wasn't going to have any of that and threw it up again (the Prograf was long since absorbed). That's always fun. He seems fine overall, though, and ate a string cheese, drank a ton of water, and went to sleep. Thinking about it now, I think the last time he had the loopy medicine, he threw up then, too. Oh well. If he isn't better hydrated tomorrow, I expect to be readmitted at that time (and if his numbers don't show improvement). In other words, I expect to be readmitted.

For those wondering, I've decided to take the pessimist approach to this whole thing as it helps when things don't go like we hope. At least this way, the only surprises are good ones. I guess its an optimists approach to being pessimist? Is that an oxymoron?

Well, I'm beat. I've had about three hours of sleep over the last 40 hours or so, so it is much needed at this point (last night was a very long night).