The doctor has told us that it's a good possibilty that Jerry may need some blood transfusions in the next few days/weeks depending on how his treatments go.
I am told with the Chemo in his system that it's a good possibility that he will need to have transfusions to replenish the lost blood in his system. It doesn't look like they will need to transfuse platelets or plasma at this point.
If anyone would like to donate blood, i would encourage it. Jerry is a type A Positive...but anyone can donate regardless of your blood type - the blood banks can always use all types of blood. One person donating blood can save 3 people's lives (yes, I pulled out the factoids there).
You can go to any local blood bank to donate. Donation time is usally approximately 1 hour (max).
Thank you in advance for considering this option. Jerry and the Blood Banks thank you.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
A Message From Trent
Well, Trent and I tried to post this as a comment for him, but after about 15 minutes of not getting it to work, we are posting it here....
There are a lot of things in this world that you sometimes take for granted and my 2nd family was probably one of them. After being down here for the last week it put back into perspective how blessed I am to be part of the Cahills. Even though you have to be somewhat crazy to fit in most of u know that's usually not too hard for me either. Scott did an awesome job of painting the perfect picture of what is going on down here and it is something we will all be able to look back and smile considering the circumstances. The girls have been strong and there for each other like never before (if u know them u know what I mean). Tanya and Tracy are at home with their kids this morning trying to re program them after Kev and I have been doing what we can to keep life normal. By normal we r talking about pizza for breakfast the first 3 days followed up by birthday cake and ice cream the next day and yesterday it was left over chocolate sundaes from McDonalds that Tanya and Xander shared in the car in front of the hospital for their time together for his b-day. So as you can see I think they’re really enjoying dad’s way of normal. We don't know where this journey will lead us but everyone is onboard the new ride at Disney the "Jerry Cahill" roller coaster it will scare the shit out of u. To all of our friends and family all over the place thank u you have made a bad situation bearable. And to gramma margie "Thank u" for leaving your life behind and being a nanny, doctor, nurse, counselor, cook, maid, party planner, and a rock when nobody else knew where to turn you gave the advice u thought was right and it always was whether it was accepted at first or not. I almost forgot the whole reason why I sat down and started babbling Tanya and I have our hands full with the 2 little spirited rascals that keep us smiling and hard to imagine but sometimes trying to win arguments that u know we can't win. Tracy and Kev are the ones that deserve the congrats so we can stop the rumors before they start. Thanks for everything.
Trent
There are a lot of things in this world that you sometimes take for granted and my 2nd family was probably one of them. After being down here for the last week it put back into perspective how blessed I am to be part of the Cahills. Even though you have to be somewhat crazy to fit in most of u know that's usually not too hard for me either. Scott did an awesome job of painting the perfect picture of what is going on down here and it is something we will all be able to look back and smile considering the circumstances. The girls have been strong and there for each other like never before (if u know them u know what I mean). Tanya and Tracy are at home with their kids this morning trying to re program them after Kev and I have been doing what we can to keep life normal. By normal we r talking about pizza for breakfast the first 3 days followed up by birthday cake and ice cream the next day and yesterday it was left over chocolate sundaes from McDonalds that Tanya and Xander shared in the car in front of the hospital for their time together for his b-day. So as you can see I think they’re really enjoying dad’s way of normal. We don't know where this journey will lead us but everyone is onboard the new ride at Disney the "Jerry Cahill" roller coaster it will scare the shit out of u. To all of our friends and family all over the place thank u you have made a bad situation bearable. And to gramma margie "Thank u" for leaving your life behind and being a nanny, doctor, nurse, counselor, cook, maid, party planner, and a rock when nobody else knew where to turn you gave the advice u thought was right and it always was whether it was accepted at first or not. I almost forgot the whole reason why I sat down and started babbling Tanya and I have our hands full with the 2 little spirited rascals that keep us smiling and hard to imagine but sometimes trying to win arguments that u know we can't win. Tracy and Kev are the ones that deserve the congrats so we can stop the rumors before they start. Thanks for everything.
Trent
A quick update
Jerry has been pretty out of it over the past 12 hours since they started him on the dialysis machine. They have kept him fairly sedated to ensure that he remains calm.
Due to the addition of dialysis on a continual basis, the hospital staff has asked that we only have 2 people in the room at any given time so that we are not in the way of the machines and the nurses ability to check on Jerry if needed.
We'll continue to watch over him and see how things go- but for now, stable is good. :)
Due to the addition of dialysis on a continual basis, the hospital staff has asked that we only have 2 people in the room at any given time so that we are not in the way of the machines and the nurses ability to check on Jerry if needed.
We'll continue to watch over him and see how things go- but for now, stable is good. :)
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