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Most of you know I broke my foot and Jerry broke his arm recently. My foot is healing, I am able to walk now although I still have a soft cast. I can also drive. Jerry's arm is still healing.
Last Friday Jerry tripped over the dog. He bruised a rib, but Jerry being Jerry, he didn't want to go to the doctor's. Finally he was having so much difficulty breathing that he agreed to go to the doctor's around noon Sunday.
They gave him an 800 mg ibuprofen and the breathing eased. They decided that they should run some tests, so they did blood, urine, and chest x-rays. All this time we were left in the waiting room. Then they came out and said they wanted a CAT scan, "to be sure." Well, by now it is over three hours and we think soon we will go home, until...
The nurse comes out and takes us to a treatment room and tells Jerry the doctor will be in soon. Seems his white blood cells, which should number 10,000 were more like 50,000 to 60,000. They thought he had a bad infection and said he should be hospitalized so they could give him massive IV of antibiotics.
They called all of Jerry's specialists, so they would come and see him. Final verdict, Jerry has Acute Myeloid Leukemia. He will be hospitalized for three weeks for treatment. I've started a BLOG, and you can keep up on how he's doing here:
How Jerry's Doing
Jerry is at St. Rose Siena in Henderson, NV, in Room 378.
Fern
Last Friday Jerry tripped over the dog. He bruised a rib, but Jerry being Jerry, he didn't want to go to the doctor's. Finally he was having so much difficulty breathing that he agreed to go to the doctor's around noon Sunday.
They gave him an 800 mg ibuprofen and the breathing eased. They decided that they should run some tests, so they did blood, urine, and chest x-rays. All this time we were left in the waiting room. Then they came out and said they wanted a CAT scan, "to be sure." Well, by now it is over three hours and we think soon we will go home, until...
The nurse comes out and takes us to a treatment room and tells Jerry the doctor will be in soon. Seems his white blood cells, which should number 10,000 were more like 50,000 to 60,000. They thought he had a bad infection and said he should be hospitalized so they could give him massive IV of antibiotics.
They called all of Jerry's specialists, so they would come and see him. Final verdict, Jerry has Acute Myeloid Leukemia. He will be hospitalized for three weeks for treatment. I've started a BLOG, and you can keep up on how he's doing here:
How Jerry's Doing
Jerry is at St. Rose Siena in Henderson, NV, in Room 378.
Fern
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