5/4/2010 Treatment #3 Round 1

We came up last night and of course went to the lab to give my sample for them to look at.

When we got in the office, we were shown to an exam room and after a few minutes Dr. Te's Nurse Practitioner K. Didion came in and was pretty excited because of the blood test the night before, she said the red blood iron count was alarmingly low 26.6 where over 41 is normal, she explained that her job was to work with me to monitor the blood tests, and my diet needs to help with side effects and keep me as strong as possible for the trials to come. So she was very concerned about the iron count and told me that we would need to schedule a transfusion of blood as soon as possible to raise the numbers into manageable levels, this hit us as a shock as we had been told that it would probably come to that, but no one had said it could come so soon. The other thing that was happening was that I was coming of a round of steroid use that they have me on 4 days on, 4 days off and will continue until they tell me not too. Anyway getting back to today, I asked K. if we could wait until Friday and get it done then, she was a little reluctant, but agreed to wait. So after talking for a while, we went to the treatment room and I had treatment #3 for Round 1, we went and picked up our stuff from Coral Canyon and headed for Vegas that afternoon. We got back in Vegas about 3:00 in the afternoon. As it turned out, might not have been the best idea. But that's for the next story.