July 6, 2003
All,
Thanks everybody for your patience and waiting for today's update. I've been sleeping a lot today (I think it's all them drugs):-)))). I had a quiet day today. Menchie spent the afternoon goofing off, well, she did do the laundry. She went with her sister and a friend to see "Charlie's Angels". She says it is not worth it. Yesterday afternoon, a bunch of hams descended on my room. Fortunately, they missed my bed. We had a lot of fun talking about field day and Terry did a bunch of magic tricks. It was pretty amazing. My boss, Joe, also dropped in and I got a chance to see the 1979 Spyder he is restoring. I would have gone for a ride, but I didn't want to get too close to the interior for fear of infection. It was a fun evening. Today I got to spend some time walking and sitting outside, talking on the radio and the cellular phone.
Not a whole lot new on the medical front. I am still getting the heparin drip and they started me on coumadin last night. Because of all the blood thinning drugs, they have increased my platelet transfusion threshold to 25, so I got a transfusion of platelets today.
Lab Results |
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| WBC | 4.5 | .6 | .6 | .7 |
| RBC | 4.30 | 2.41 | 2.33 | 2.49 |
| HGB | 13.9 | 8.7 | 8.4 | 8.8 |
| PLT | 130 | 33 | 23 | 18 |
Till next time!
Ted Wilcox
tw@wilcoxent.com