Wednesday +42 (6:00 PM)

It was another warm day in Rochester. Unfortunately it was cloudy and windy much of the day. A chance of thunderstorms exists. It feels a lot like Spring in Oklahoma today.

Jackie didn't feel well at all today. She continues to have a lot of back and neck pain. She spent much of the time today in bed. In fact, she just took one of the extra strength pain pills. Hopefully this will help her feel better.

We will be returning to the hospital in a couple of hours for the 2nd IV treatment. We spoke with another doctor about the CMV virus today. She, too, felt that an increase in viral load counts wasn't too unusual. We will know more when the next test is conducted next week.

If you recall, I mentioned in the last post that Jackie was given a prescription yesterday for high blood pressure. I questioned if it was necessary. Today they asked that we cut the dosage in half. They discussed whether she should be taking any meds for this at all??? It seems her blood pressure was back to normal this morning.

Jackie's counts continue to remain stable. Her RBC (Hgl) was 9.9 up from 9.8 yesterday. Her WBC count was 3.7 down from 3.8 yesterday. Her ANC count was 2.41. Her platelets were 109 up from 106 yesterday. As I've mentioned several times the Ganicyclovir will suppress blood counts a great deal. Once she is off the anti-viral treatments her counts should improve.

Until later,

Bruce and Jackie
From Rochester, MN