Saturday, July 19th

Yesterday, Dave was on dialysis for a full 12 hours. That was great, thank you for you prayers. Dave's WBC is 23,700. Today was a pretty good day. Dave was fairly comfortable throughout the day. The blood clot in Dave's arm has improved and is not as hard and red as it was before. Dr Stothert put in a new PICC line and removed Dave's dialysis catheter. On Monday, they plan to put in a tunnel catheter, which has a lesser chance of becoming infected. This is a more permanent solution for dialysis. The doctors are still confident that Dave's kidneys will begin normal function.