{"id":1008,"date":"2010-06-17T11:43:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T18:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2010-06-18T21:19:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T04:19:32","slug":"hospital-adventure-day-1-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/hospital-adventure-day-1-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Adventure &#8211; Day 1 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/4709812216\/\" title=\"DSC00296 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4023\/4709812216_a0af71c1f1_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"DSC00296\" \/><\/a>The good folks at Vancouver Children&#8217;s Hospital have a guest WIFI internet hotspot, but I can only see web pages and cant get e-mail (for the techy people all extra ports are blocked so I can&#8217;t even see webmail &#8211; I can however get e-mail on my blackberry).  So now that we know what my connection environment is like, i&#8217;ll proceed with an update.<\/p>\n<p>We made it into the hospital last night after some bad results from a blood test in the morning.  We got here around 8:00PM and found an almost empty emergency room.  We were seen right away, but it was a bit of hurry-up-and-wait.  We had a few check-ins with triage types and then were sent to a small treatment room to await an actual doctor.<\/p>\n<p>The first doctor was a resident and gave us a bit of a roller-coaster emotional ride.  He told us that the blood work test came back positive for mono-nucleosis and going through the list of symptoms, said that all of them could be explained by mono, but were a-typical.  I really felt strongly to stay even keel and that we weren&#8217;t done yet, so I opted out of the roller coaster.<\/p>\n<p>They took a bunch more blood to redo the tests and do a few more.  After a fair bit more waiting, the hematology \/ oncology doctor came in and discussed the results of the tests and the results were the opposite.  He was quite sure that they were leukemia blast cells and that the mono was probably a false positive.  In the end further tests confirmed this.<\/p>\n<p>A few numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A normal person has a white-cell count between 5000 &#8211; 10000.  Angelica is 18500.  Adult leukemia (different than in children) presents upwards of 50000.<\/li>\n<li>Angelica had a low red-cell count yesterday morning (don&#8217;t know how low) and it came up to 85 last night.  It was down at 55 this morning, but the doctors are not worried about that at all.<\/li>\n<li>The biggest concern is platelets.  A normal person has a platelet count around 125. Angelica was at 9 last night.  She has received a platelet transfusion overnight that has brought that number up to 40, but they need it to be above 50 to do a marrow biopsy. <em>(Platelets are responsible for starting the clotting process and not having them means that when you bleed, it wont stop.)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Angelica is doing really well.  We had a good talk on the way in to the hospital about what to expect and what it means to have faith and what leukemia is and the fact that doctors speak about the facts and statistics and that we can focus on those or we can focus on what God says the outcome will be.  She does tend to process internally and so I am keeping an eye on that, but I honestly believe that she has no fear.  She&#8217;s an amazing girl.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note, Patti is about to give birth to #5.  This is significant in that there are some treatments for some types of leukemia that involve stem-cells from a new-born umbilical cord and placenta.  We had been planning on having the baby in langley, but Women&#8217;s hospital is next door and the maternity ward connects the two hospitals, so patti is talking to our midwife about that right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks at Vancouver Children&#8217;s Hospital have a guest WIFI internet hotspot, but I can only see web pages and cant get e-mail (for the techy people all extra ports are blocked so I can&#8217;t even see webmail &#8211; I can however get e-mail on my blackberry). So now that we know what my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/hospital-adventure-day-1-am\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hospital Adventure &#8211; Day 1 AM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gelica","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}