Tuesday, January 18, 2005 6:50 PM CST
It's Tuesday at almost 5:00 pm. Dave went into surgery at noon and they started operating at about 1:00. They expect the surgery to last until about 6:00 pm. Dave is holding his own, but his platelets were very low despite 3 transfusions. He has had a lot of bleeding and they are concerned, so they were just starting a transfusion when they called me at 4:00.
We came to the hospital last night and they admitted Dave to administer the platelets. His count was around 20,000 and they wanted him at 100,000 to do surgery. Normal is around 400,000. The second transfusion brought him to 127,000. Please pray that the bleeding will be completely controlled.
The trip here was awful, there was freezing rain, snow, ice and flooding. It took us 9 hours to get to Seattle. They closed the pass right after we got through. Thank you for your prayers, we got here safely and just in time.
Seems the power of prayer for Dave is red hot, literally. Last time we were in Seattle for surgery, the hotel caught fire. Today there was a fire in the hospital. We were evacuated, and the fire trucks came, but it was cleared up pretty quickly. The nurse from surgery that I talked to didn't even know it happened, so that was good.
Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers. KOKO!!
It's Tuesday at almost 5:00 pm. Dave went into surgery at noon and they started operating at about 1:00. They expect the surgery to last until about 6:00 pm. Dave is holding his own, but his platelets were very low despite 3 transfusions. He has had a lot of bleeding and they are concerned, so they were just starting a transfusion when they called me at 4:00.
We came to the hospital last night and they admitted Dave to administer the platelets. His count was around 20,000 and they wanted him at 100,000 to do surgery. Normal is around 400,000. The second transfusion brought him to 127,000. Please pray that the bleeding will be completely controlled.
The trip here was awful, there was freezing rain, snow, ice and flooding. It took us 9 hours to get to Seattle. They closed the pass right after we got through. Thank you for your prayers, we got here safely and just in time.
Seems the power of prayer for Dave is red hot, literally. Last time we were in Seattle for surgery, the hotel caught fire. Today there was a fire in the hospital. We were evacuated, and the fire trucks came, but it was cleared up pretty quickly. The nurse from surgery that I talked to didn't even know it happened, so that was good.
Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers. KOKO!!
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