Day 111 -- (Day +3)

Sunday.  My perspective today.  ...   where what really matters in life is very apparent.

Riley's IV pole has grown even larger.  It got a new "brain" today on the back side with many new channels for adding on medicine. 

Riley woke up moaning this morning.  The sores are getting worse and he spiked a fever this morning.   They took a blood culture and got him started on 2 heavy hitting antibiotics.  They gave him a dose of morphine for the pain and encouraged him to switch to a PCA (patient controlled analgesia).  This would allow him to control the morphine when he is in pain.  It will administer 1.5 mg per hour and if he needs more, he can push the button and it will give him a boost more.

At first he was opposed, but as the morphine wore off and his pain continued, he agreed. 

So today was the day he became an "octopus" as Jacquelyn our nurse put it.  Many tubes, and lines. 

Labs today:

White blood cells:  .2  (normal 4.5 - 13.5)

Red Blood cells: 10.3  (normal 13.5 - 17.5)

Platelets: 76  (normal 150 - 425)

ANC: 0 ( < 500 = severely neutropenic) (normal 2,000 - 5,000)