Oh Happy Day...

We had the dr. stop by this afternoon he mentioned that he'll be for at least a couple more days. With the new blood transfusion they have to make sure that his levels don't rise and than fall again like they did last time. They also have to make sure that his kidney levels continue to fall. We don't necessarily have to be in the "normal" range but need to be headed in that direction consistently before they'll consider releasing him. He also mentioned that he'll probably need weekly blood draws once we leave to make sure everything is maintaining. He's going to love that!

I'm shooting for a weekend discharge date. I don't want to get my hopes up too high!

The resident that was with the dr. also talked about how they were doing everything they could to get the isolation ban removed. I wasn't to optimistic since they were pretty adamant this morning that there was nothing we could do until he poops. Although... I still pled my case... again! About 30 seconds after they left the room he came back in with some very good news... we no longer have a nice "contaminated room" poster adorning our door. The senior resident from this morning went to the top of the supervisor chain and they finally gave the go ahead. Apparently some of his stool had come back negative for shiga-toxins, but they weren't able to test for e.coli. Not sure why we didn't find this out two days ago... oh well.

We're Free At Last!

Tonight Jed pushed him down to the playroom in his car. He walked with me to the candy machines. And I pushed him again in his car to pick out a movie. I think he's enjoying his new found freedom. I know I am.
He and his dad enjoyed some playstation baseball and we all played a game of animal rummy, Lucas style.

His transfusion went well this afternoon. He slept through about 3 hours of it, although he was not cooperative during the vital checks. We're glad it's over and hope his body decides to keep these instead of destroy them.