"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all." - Dan Rather
Things are slowly moving in a positive direction. Since the addition of the sucralfate into the medication lineup Elise seems to be doing much better. The lead Dr came by today and said that Elise's blood counts continue to climb as they'd like to see. If things continue in a positive direction then Elise could be transition from inpatient to outpatient possibly as early as the end of next week! There's a bunch of stuff that needs to happen for that to occur so I won't hold my breath, but it was good to hear her say it.
They've tapered the painkillers quite a bit and may remove the continuous drip in the next day or so. And they also plan to transition from IV meds to oral meds in the next few days since she can swallow again, although she still has some throat pain. And they're going to start tapering off some of the meds all together. One piece of good news from the GI Dr, apparently Elise is the poster child for good liver function. She said normally the liver would start showing signs of stress from all the meds, but she said Elise's liver numbers are looking really good. I guess that's something.
On the throat front, she's still getting most of her nutrients via IV but we're trying to transition back to normal foods. It's going to take a while mostly because her taste buds are working quite right yet. Foods she'd normally like aren't appealing. This will just take some time.
Tomorrow she's starting back in with the tutor and maybe rec therapy as well. We'd called this off while she was feeling so bad, but she's alert and I think a little bored so we'll fill some of her days. It will be nice when she can leave the room (and we turn off the Animal Planet).
I'm happy to say things are going much better than this time last week, and we're hoping to say the same thing next week.
They've tapered the painkillers quite a bit and may remove the continuous drip in the next day or so. And they also plan to transition from IV meds to oral meds in the next few days since she can swallow again, although she still has some throat pain. And they're going to start tapering off some of the meds all together. One piece of good news from the GI Dr, apparently Elise is the poster child for good liver function. She said normally the liver would start showing signs of stress from all the meds, but she said Elise's liver numbers are looking really good. I guess that's something.
On the throat front, she's still getting most of her nutrients via IV but we're trying to transition back to normal foods. It's going to take a while mostly because her taste buds are working quite right yet. Foods she'd normally like aren't appealing. This will just take some time.
Tomorrow she's starting back in with the tutor and maybe rec therapy as well. We'd called this off while she was feeling so bad, but she's alert and I think a little bored so we'll fill some of her days. It will be nice when she can leave the room (and we turn off the Animal Planet).
I'm happy to say things are going much better than this time last week, and we're hoping to say the same thing next week.
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