Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Dad Update

I realized I haven't updated from Michigan in a while, so I wanted to let everyone know that Dad is in the hospital still. He's at Botsford, but we're hoping that he might be leaving this week. They've prescribed a new medication called Ranexa that is supposed to improve blood flow to the heart and hopefully eliminate angina attacks. This is what led him back to the hospital after being at the rehab facility for a week. It seems that he's still having difficulties getting everything to work right at the same time as yesterday they expressed concern about his white blood cells and platelet counts. They don't understand why these are reduced as they don't feel that there is any problem with his marrow, so I'm not sure if more tests are going to be done.

We're still planning to travel to the Valley for the holiday weekend, and have arranged for additional visits from people at our church, my brother-in-law, Marcus, and my friends Jim and Joyce Warner.

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