Happy to Be Home

 

10/28 – Friday

The liver biopsy came back negative as we expected. We walked the halls a lot yesterday. Michelle got emotional in the hallway once. When I went to hug her, I irritated her newly installed port. I felt horrible. She stayed depressed most of the day. She took a 90-minute nap and had a hard time waking up after it. Groggy, sad and depressed are recipes for disaster. For the most part, she kept it together. She had some visitors later that night which helped her sadness.

Our sleep was not great last night. Michelle's O2 levels were concerning. At one point they were at 89%. Anything lower than 88% and an oxygen supplement could be required. When they could not bring the oxygen levels up higher than 92%, they decided to give her some oxygen at 4am. This made Chele very uncomfortable. This almost kept Chele in the hospital for another night. I will use an oximeter to measure it at home.

The pulmonology team came to get her around 10:30am this morning for the lung biopsy. I got a call from the pulmonologist around noon taunting his successful sampling of the lung. We should get the results on Tuesday. Six minutes of walking with Chele's 02 levels over 93% were good enough to clear her for discharge.

Love, Brian