Day 13 Tuesday

Today was a much better day for Dad. He woke up and had a good breakfast...loading up on potassium with OJ, apricot nectar, and had some coffee and French toast. I forgot to mention that yesterday when they did his blood work and vitals, he was partially dehydrated. So he's been doing a better job of drinking fluids. Back to today...we went back to the Med Center for blood work...everything improved except the platelets stayed the same. We saw the doctor...his original doctor, Dr. Bierman, whom we haven't seen since before the chemo. He was very impressed with how Dad was doing. He told Dad that he has done as good as anyone has ever done with the transplant. In fact, he also said a bit later in the conversation, that Dad had done "spectacular", which was a lot for him to say. So those were very good words to hear.

We came home and Dad took a 2 hour nap and then ate a good dinner. What hair he was growing back, has fallen out so he has the chrome dome effect...which is the very least of his concerns. He goes back in tomorrow for blood work and then more blood work on Friday and a final doctor visit. The doctor said that if all is as well as it is today, we can go back home on Friday afternoon and then Dad will hook back up with his Lincoln oncologist. He will return to Omaha whenever his platelets are at 50 to have his catheter line removed.