Update:
Once discharged from the hospital, the road to recovery is quite lengthy. Going home is only the first step. Dale's body is completely immunocompromised and protecting him is our number one priority!
We will need to drive to St. Louis at least 2x a week for months and then eventually 1x weekly, clad in an N95 mask they gave Dale to wear at each visit, which will consist of various blood tests, a doctor's appointment for checking his progress- looking for GVHD issues; he may need transfusions of RBC and Platelets, injections of potassium, magnesium, etc. Testing like Bone Marrow Biopsies, chest x-rays, and anything else he may need.
Some days we may be there a few hours, another it may be over 10 hours. The recovery is long, somewhat scary and uncertain. The Lord has gotten us through the transplant portion!
Praise God!
But prayers for the recovery are also needed.
(I will be Dale's caregiver...making sure all these things take place; taking his temperature 2x a day and praying he has no fever, giving him all the meds he needs daily, wiping down all fixtures, switches and knobs daily, preparing nutritious meals, making sure he walks often to keep his lungs open and strength up, etc.) The doctor said Dale's immune system was completely stripped down to nothing and the slightest runny nose can send him into pneumonia.
Then the doctor looked at me and said, "Susan, keep him in a well insulated bubble...
(no pressure, no pressure)
...because the rebuilding of his immune system will take many months, (sometimes up to a year or more) before Dale can tolerate a virus."
We appreciate y'alls prayers! As the doctor left he said
"Today was a good day. Tomorrow may not be. Take it one day at a time because anything in this recovery can change quickly."
Isn't that what the Lord says to do? Take things one day at a time?
Matthew 6:34a 'Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself...'
Thank you for reading this...and for your prayers
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