Carla is getting her line out and we will be heading home this afternoon. She has done extremely well during consolidation #2 with few side effects. She has an appointment this Thursday with the neurosurgeon, Dr. Pait. We plan to drive back early Thursday, meet with Dr. Pait, have her blood labs drawn here and spend the night at our Little Rock apartment before heading back to Springfield.
Carla meets with Dr. Pait to see what he recommends about her back including possible corrective surgery. Carla is scheduled to return to Little Rock in 4 to 6 weeks to have tests done before starting on her maintenance phase. Most of the maintenance therapy can be done in Springfield. Dr. Barlogie will help schedule the surgery if it is deemed necessary.
Carla's platelete count was coming up yesterday but at 32 it would not be above the minimum 50 required for line removal. Carla convinced the APN nurse to let us come back last evening for a bag of platelets rather than have to work them into today's schedule. Because of this foresight it looks like we will be ready to head out of here before 3:00 today!
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