The first night went pretty well. Mr. Morphine kept the pain to a manageable level and I was able to sleep off and on with the typical hospital sleep interruptions. Woke up for the new day at about 600am when they wanted some blood. That resulted in some decent news of a platelet count at 68,000. However, the surgeon pumped a lot of platelets into me during the operation, so it's not clear how much of that came from surgery. The next read will be tomorrow morning and an increase will say a lot.
I have four incisions... three on the left torso for the laproscopic spleen removal and one on the lower right near my groin where the radiologist did the embolization of the spleen artery. According to the surgeon, there were only 9-12 drops of blood during the operations. Nice to hear.
Just went for a walk around the hospital floor hallway with Lisa. Used a walker and it went alright. I'm off the morphine and on to Vicodin in pill form. Eating regular food and not attached to IV at the moment.
Doc said I would likely be released tomorrow, but would need to stay in Honolulu until Monday to get a platelet read and see how that's progressing.
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