Good bye to Northside (for now)

Transfer

Trudie received another transfusion today since her blood counts had dropped yet again. Today we got clearance to move on to acute rehabilitation. It will be tough to leave Northside Hospital because there have been many excellent staff people there who have made this stay as best that it could be under the circumstances.

Tomorrow morning we will be transferred to North Fulton Regional Hospital. She has an initial assignment of ten days of intensive physical therapy at their in-patient PT unit. It's going to be tough on her. She is ready to give it the best she can.

Going Forward

Now what is the next step? The pathology finding of the tumor removed was that it is indeed angio sarcoma. This is usually a soft-tissue cancer, but for some reason in Trudie it is in the cells lining her blood vessels in her bones. After her rehab assignment at North Fulton the hematologist wants to evaluate her for a splenectomy. He thinks her spleen has a angio sarcoma tumor that is causing it to sequester Trudie's blood cells. This would be the explanation as to why her blood counts keep falling. The spleen is not an organ this is of much use to adults so they feel they can remove hers and it will help the whole situation.

So we may not be gone from Northside all that long.

Thanks and Appreciation

We appreciate all of you and your expressions of concern and your kindnesses. We know that many of you are praying for us and that is the biggest thing and most important thing that anyone can do for us now. We are blessed with many praying friends and we appreciate every prayer said for us. Trudie wishes me to express her sorrow at not being available when you've tried to reach her. Sometimes she was off being poked and prodded; sometimes she was just too whooped to talk. We appreciate your patience and understanding.