Friday, August 22

Dave's white blood count went up today. The first reading was 30,500, the doctors didn't believe it so they ordered another blood draw and another test. The second reading was 30,300. The trauma team is stumped. The hemo team seems to think this is to be expected for all the trauma his body has been through and again withdrew from Dave's case. Because of Dave's high WBC the doctors put Dave on an IV antibiotic and took him off the 2 oral antibiotics. He still is not running a temperature though, PTL! During Dave's trip to IR they removed the tube in his back! He is back down to 3 tubes again! Dave didn't throw up today, although he did feel nauseous at times. He had fewer breathing episodes today! They decided to start pulling out Dave's JP tube, one inch at a time. This is how they removed the majority of his other tubes. Please pray the tube will come out without incident.