Further update
Friday, 2 May 2025 22:51![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekI've got a bit of a silver lining today.
So in a conversation that Mom had with the doctor, the doctor mentioned that my Dad's blood test results were very severe, that the indicator for infection, where for a normal person would be less than 1, he had 100. As it was Mom that had the conversation, she did not ask what it was, I looked it up and I thought it was the CRT.
I also gave a short update to my cousins on my Dad's side of the family (so that they can tell their respective dads, who are my Dad's brothers) and one of them said that their dad, my uncle, had a similar case and that his CRT was up to 160 but that they managed to find the correct antibiotics to fight it.
Today I talked to the doctor and apparently they were using PCT, but those figures were also going down. So Dad's PCT started with 100, yesterday brought down to 90, today is down to 30. (And CRT was in the mid-30s and now around 28). So I guess the infection is slowly getting under control.
Work-wise, the boss has been very kind to allow me all time flexibility (to come in and out as I please) and as long as for important things that can't be handled by other people, that I handle over the phone, that has been a great help as I've been driving Mom in and out of hospital with the frankly terrible visiting hours. Noon 12.00-14.00 and 18.00-20.00.
I also don't think I'll be in any good mood even if I went to Tokyo, so I'm just not going to go next week. Flight tickets are non-refundable anyway, so I'll just cancel my hotel reservation and the kinsugi course I applied for. The Singapore work trip though, I can't miss it, so I will still be away a couple days at the end of the month.
So in a conversation that Mom had with the doctor, the doctor mentioned that my Dad's blood test results were very severe, that the indicator for infection, where for a normal person would be less than 1, he had 100. As it was Mom that had the conversation, she did not ask what it was, I looked it up and I thought it was the CRT.
I also gave a short update to my cousins on my Dad's side of the family (so that they can tell their respective dads, who are my Dad's brothers) and one of them said that their dad, my uncle, had a similar case and that his CRT was up to 160 but that they managed to find the correct antibiotics to fight it.
Today I talked to the doctor and apparently they were using PCT, but those figures were also going down. So Dad's PCT started with 100, yesterday brought down to 90, today is down to 30. (And CRT was in the mid-30s and now around 28). So I guess the infection is slowly getting under control.
Work-wise, the boss has been very kind to allow me all time flexibility (to come in and out as I please) and as long as for important things that can't be handled by other people, that I handle over the phone, that has been a great help as I've been driving Mom in and out of hospital with the frankly terrible visiting hours. Noon 12.00-14.00 and 18.00-20.00.
I also don't think I'll be in any good mood even if I went to Tokyo, so I'm just not going to go next week. Flight tickets are non-refundable anyway, so I'll just cancel my hotel reservation and the kinsugi course I applied for. The Singapore work trip though, I can't miss it, so I will still be away a couple days at the end of the month.
