Duke 2012 – Day 5
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Shorter than yesterday.
Nothing goes on at this hospital on Sundays. Probably a lot of gradually going crazy and feeling walls close in on you. Not much else.
INR this morning was 1.3. Since it was 1.2 yesterday and it has to be 2.0 before we come home, you can tell pretty quickly that we didn’t get the progress we wanted. To keep the story short, this slow progress was due, at least in part, to not getting an appropriate dose of warfarin last night. Tami did get another dose this morning and a larger dose tonight, but since it does take a few days to gradually increase the INR, the bottom line is that we will most likely be here until Tuesday. Outside chance for tomorrow. Don’t bet anything valuable on it.
Obviously, God still has us here for a reason. Today, Tami was able to share with her nurse about her daily read-through-the-Bible. Sometimes it’s frustrating to sit here with nothing to do and nothing to anticipate except the next morning’s blood results. But God is still good, so here we are. No doubt, by the time we are done, we will have seen God’s hand somewhere and will be glad that we did.
