RWJ. Day17---------Day +10

We have been in this room for 17 days, I think we are both going a little crazy! Sarah was up at 7:30am, she was anxious to see the doctors, it was a long wait since they don't do rounds until about 10am. In the mean time, our favorite nurse told me a secret, Sarah's white blood count jumped from 0.4 to 2.0, this is great news! When the doctors did come around they were pleased to hear that Sarah was much more alert and eating. They took her off all but one IV antibiotic, and cut back on some of the meds she takes orally; they indicated that if she remained fever free throughout the night, and he blood counts continued to rise, we would go home this weekend! Of course Sarah has decided that means tomorrow, as early as possible! Although she would have loved for them to release her today, with some coaxing she realized that they have to monitor her for another night. In the meantime, the nurse practitioner wrote out all of the prescriptions for the meds Sarah will have to take at home for the next month and the case worker sent them all downstairs to the on site Walgreen's pharmacy. Within 30 minutes they had all the prescriptions approved, packaged, and ready for pick-up; couldn't have been any more convenient. Later this afternoon, the nurse practitioner went over all the meds with me, and answered some of our questions relating to Sarah's care at home. After a nap, Sarah worked with the physical therapist on some strengthening exercises. I must admit that for someone who had received some long awaited good news, my darling daughter was rather crabby this afternoon; apparently she had a bad headache, but was afraid to say anything in case it would delay her release. Fortunately she finally told nurse Nancy, took a pill and a nap, and woke up a much happier young lady. We had dinner, got ready for bed, watched the Yankee game, and now we are ready to get some sleep and dream about tomorrow and home! My last night on a small, hard sofa bed, yeah!!!!!!!!! Sweet dreams, Maria