He's going to be transferred on Wednesday

News as of Tue 9/6/05, 11:45pm:

Things are looking up. Stefan has been at Resurrection Hospital since he came to the ER yesterday, but we wanted to have transferred to a hospital with more hematology oncologists on staff. He was accepted as the patient of such a specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, downtown Chicago. Stefan will be transferred in the morning tomorrow. He will not be undergoing any further procedures during the remainder of his stay at Resurrection.

He was sitting up this evening and had a bit of appetite return, as he ate some of his dinner. His white blood count has lowered significantly - though not back to "normal" - through the two hemo-dialysis procedures. (There's a fancy name for them - leuko-something-something, but I can't remember how to say it, much less spell it!)

Daniella and I left him at 10:30pm, in the capable hands of nurse Carol. Last night, nurse Cheryl was wonderful, but earlier today, nurse Malika was... let's say "not so nice." Daniella said she felt Stefan was stable enough that she was not going to be calling the SICU every hour during the night to check on him, and indeed, Stefan was the most stable patient in the SICU. So stable, that if a SICU bed was needed during the night for a more urgent patient, Stefan would be moved to a "regular" bed.

I went home with Daniella. We cleaned out her fridge, lest green stuff start growing in there! After being assured that she would be fine by herself for the night, she sent me off to go home and be with my kids, so that Jon wouldn't be late for work because he had to wait for me to get home in the morning.

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I have also decided that for simplicity and ease of reading the blog, I will address my dad as "Stefan" and my mom as "Daniella," because more people know and call them by those names. There's really just four of us who call them "Dad" and "Mama." So, yes, I still respect my elders, and don't call my parents by their given names. But in the blog, I will continue to address all family and friends by their given names and omit their respective titles (mama, daddy, ciocia, wujek, aunt, uncle, grandma, etc.) I will point out relations where/when necessary, but probably other than Babcia Hela and Babcia Zosia, all other family and friends will be addressed by first name (last name, if needed.)