Update

Hello, everyone! I'm here to give a huge thank you for all of your concern and prayers for me. My family and I are deeply appreciative of your support. We're very thankful for all the thoughts, prayers, and life, in general. It is good to love and be loved! I have been discharged from the hospital and am at my parent's home recovering. I'm not very clear myself with what has occurred and I don't expect to know any time soon as my primary surgeon has "gone out of town." Do you think he's running from ME? LOL I'll catch up with him and you all soon. In the meantime, I have to rest, heal, and recheck RBC on Friday. I also need to see a hemotologist and gastrointerologist in my spare time though I can't return home for 7-10 days. *shrug* I am no longer "gravely ill," "in critical condition," "in danger," or any of those other terms as far as we know. I left the hospital yesterday with a still low RBC at 26.3; however, it had been tested earlier with a 25 so it was climbing and acceptable to assume that the alleged/suspected internal bleeding had stopped and I am on the mend. The acceptable range is 37.0-48.5. They'll run another CBC tomorrow and I should have a count back before the close of the work week. If it has dropped, I'll be readmitted to a larger, fully staffed facility whereby new consults and tests will be run to determine from where I am bleeding internally and repair it or find out what disease is causing the decline. If it is rising, I will assume I am healing and start thinking about getting home to Texas where I can be reunited with my family and consult a hemotologist and my gastrointerologist as a precaution. I have the rarest blood type that can only accept an exact match. What if no one who shares the same blood type had not donated? Donating blood really does save a life. I'm feeling very grateful. I'm tired. I'm sore. I'm grateful. I feel like saying, "Encourage some one today to donate blood. It REALLY does safe a life."