March 3rd

We have officially moved out of the ICU and into a "normal" hospital room. Huge step for Mitch. 3.5 weeks in the ICU ward is tough.

Morning labs are back and his kidney numbers dropped again last night, we are now at 1.5, which is good news. He continues to have high blood pressure but this is something the kidney doctors are fine with as it's part of the healing process. We have some other "numbers" that are on the low end and everyone is trying to figure why that is happening. Mitch is down to about 1 mini spasms per day, which typically happen at night, but something he is able to work through.

We have our big care mtg today with all our doctors. It's a sad day when this mtg is moved to the biggest conference room to accommodate all the doctors on Mitch's team. Items on the agenda: Current condition and findings (why/how this all happened and current results on all tests given to Mitch), care/plan moving forward (plan to get him better from this point forward) and potential release time-line to go home (what Mitch is most interested in - in fact, he keeps peppering me if I have worked on my "release date speech". I get the feeling he is losing confidence in my passion for this speech as he has now asked the doctors if he can attend and say a couple things). This care mtg format is great as we get to hear from everyone and ask all the questions we want from all the different specialists.