December 7, 2010 1:00AM

Holding her own!

Having spent the entire day at the hospital, we saw that my mother-in-law was starting to holding her own at thi spoint. The problem has been diagnosed as a bleeding ulcer with the initial goal to stabilize her system such that they can try measures to stop the bleeding .

After 8 pints of blood and countless units of fresh frozen plsma coupled with not allowing her to eat or drink, it appears that these non-invasive efforts have caused the bleeding to subside somewhat. Whereas on Sunday, as fast as the blood went in, she wound lose it.

Right now her blood pressure has come back to a good level, her hematocrit(blood clotting component) has finally increased about their threshhold bottom limit, but her InR(time to clot measurement - in minutes) has not decreased to quite the level that they are looking for. Having had leukemia, I'm well aware of what most of the components of the blood are for and what factors they most look for.

In a nut shell, she is feeling much better but we are not home free yet.

I wish to thank everyone who has called and who has offered prayers for her recovery.

I have to admit that it was disturbing today to have the person in the room next to her have two "code blue" calls and not survive the second one. We have to be very thankful that things have slowly seemed to progress with my mother-in-law.

There is still a long way to go and prayers are much appreciated...

Bob