Can you believe it, it is still me and I am afraid you will have to bear with me for a couple more days until Paul gets his acts together or generates more neutrophils (white blood cells that form the essential part of the immune system). He is on the right track though. His neutrophil counts has increased from his pit bottom of 0.8 when he was admitted in the ED to 1.0 yesterday and 1.2 today. Once the body's immune system kicks in, the body temp would go down, hopefully. At the moment, Paul has to be infused with different cocktails of antibiotics to fight the infection since the hospital could not identify the source of the infection that has been keeping his temp up. (Note: Neutrophil count of 3.5 x 109/L is an average for healthy people).
Other than that, Paul seems to be comfortable under the care of the hospital. Below are photos of him progressing from the battered arms on the first day, to enjoying his lunch and reading DomPost in bed, to working on his book and talking with sister Mary from Australia at the same time. The other laptop belongs to Miang, who works alongside him to keep him company. Life is not totally bad, is it?
You look good Paul! Still try to be multi-tasking! Actually, your hospital room looks nearly the same as my father's at the moment at a Shanghai hospital with wires and tubes connected, except he does not have a laptop, nor a second laptop used by someone who looks after him! Keep up the good spirit and wish you a fast recovery! Yang
ReplyDeleteSo glad to see you looking so bright Uncle P, keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the updates Miang, lots of love to you both Vik and Shaun xxx
Your hospital room looks like a luxury hotel suite with multiple laptops etc. If you get bored working on your book and want to watch something, I was very impressed with Charlie Rose's interview of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos:
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Much love to you both from HOT North Carolina!