I feel like there is not much to report... same old same old... but I guess that's news too so here ya go. They are still stair stepping down his pain meds. Even though he had no pain they don't want to take him off of it too quickly otherwise he may experience withdrawal symptoms.
They have also been stepping down on his IV nutrition as Logan has been eating and drinking on his own. The drinking he is doing very well with. Food still doesn't taste quite right, but he is trying to take a few bites everyday to get this system reaquainted with food. He wanted Lamar's Donuts for lunch and with a store just over a mile away his wish was granted! He is now enjoying a nibble of donut here and there while watching movies.
He hasn't had any vomiting for days and nose bleeds are very minimal now. The only wrench in his machine right now is platelets. He has had several transfusions including another one yesterday. While he didn't show symptoms of a reaction during the transfusion, this morning his platelets were back down as if he didn't have a transfusion at all yesterday. They are worried that his new immune system is attacking the donated platelets. Since they wanted to bump his platelets up again today they super filtered the batch pulling out all of the plasma with the hopes of preventing an immune response. So far so good... they will do another CBC in a few minuets to see if he got a boost. If his platelets are still low that will tell them that his body is killing off all the donated platelets. If that happens they will need to send the platelets out to be washed before the next transfusion.
Logan is also transitioning to pills rather than IV meds when possible and they are (quietly, so as not to get his hopes up) talking about discharging him soon. Maybe as early as Tuesday! (but don't tell Logan... just in case something comes up).
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