In very "Carson" form his cbc's have been ridiculously low...so low that they thought the sample got diluted. They repeated them and they really were that low. His white blood count (the only number I actually know what the numbers mean) was at a .8 the first time and a .7 when they repeated it. "Normally" Guys number is about 2.8-3.0 and "Normal" for actually normal people is about a 5. They said all the other parts of the blood were very low too. So we got a blood transfusion. They transfused only red blood cells because they didn't want to increase his platelets which would increase his clotting.
They came in and did the Doppler ultrasound a while ago. The Doctor that did it didn't seem too excited, but didn't say no blood flow either. Dr P said he was going to go find him and figure out what the results were and let us know.
Other than that pain management has been an issue today too. Carson seems very uncomfortable and it's been challenging to try to get him to settle down. They upped his morphine and dex to see if that'll help.
On a positive note we've weaned him down to 1L on the O2.
Time for me to get some lunch.
"The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears." (Ellen Goodman)
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