We went up to the clinic this morning and got her ekg done and waited for the cardiologist to read it to see if she could get the arsenic today. Yesterday it was higher than Saturday. They gave her potassium and calicum. They also told me to give her magnesium 4 hours before coming to clinic. This morning I gave her magnesium at 6:00 am in hopes that would help her so she could get her arsenic.
After waiting for a hour at the clinic they came in and told us that we could get arsenic. The nurse said that she thought it would be a half hour for them to mix the arsenic. 2 hours later it was done. After hanging the arsenic it takes another 2 hours to get in Alyssa.
We decided today that we are going to get the results from the ekg and then leave and they can call us when it is mixed up. It was a very long day. Her nurtrafills went up to 800 and they told us a normal person has 2000 nutrafills. All of her other counts have gone up to so we are going in the right direction.
We saw some friends up on the floor that we met while in the hospital and we hope all goes well with Lisa. All of these people have come our extended family and we wish them the best for all of them. We saw a guy that was in the about the same boat as Alyssa. His last semester at BYU-Idaho would have been this semester. He wanted to have a reeses pieces iv drip so one of the nurses made him one. It was great. His wife is expecting their first baby. She is only 11 weeks along. He had a great attitude.
On a side note Alyssa and I decided to go on a adventure before going to clinic. We looked up some quilt stores on the internet and printed off the directions. We were very proud of ourselves that we found the stores. We were very disappointed when we got to the first store because it was not open today. It is only opened Tuesday- Saturday. We will have to try some other day. Also, I am very glad I am not in Omaha right now. They had a snow day today and tomorrow. I miss Kirk and Kelsey very much but very glad that I don't have to drive in that mess!
We are so happy that ALyssa is able to get out of the hospital! That is a huge step in the right direction. Now we hope those nutrafills shoot way up to normal levels. (Who ever heard of nutrafills?) Wow, we take so much for granted don't we. Keep up those adventures. SLC is full of wonderful places to visit and shop. Enjoy yourselves as much as possible. We love you all and pray for you continually!
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