Tomorrow, Tomorrow, He Comes Home, Tomorrow!

Tomorrow is the day! Tony will have stayed in the hospital for exactly 5 weeks. He is more than ready to come home. 

Originally, they said we had to wait until his platelet count reached 50 to take his pic line out. But this morning, Dr. Reid gave the nurse permission to take it out anyway. (His platelet count was at 39. So his awesome nurse Maurey, took it out and applied pressure on his arm for a full 10 min to make sure the bleeding stopped. That, my friends, is a dedicated nurse. She also was super awesome and put the pic line in a bag so that we can keep it. Tony was pretty excited about that. 

Tony has been coughing quite a bit. They think it might be his body trying to get rid of all the extra dead skin that is in his throat from all of the sores. It is making him pretty miserable though. It makes him nauseous when he starts coughing too hard. He is has been plagued by headaches. But these are all part of the recovery, and none of it is too bad to not send him home. 

He still has to take a million pills when he comes home. The prograph (that keeps his new immune system suppressed) is now in pill form, and it lowers his magnesium level, so he also has to take magnesium by pill.