5/7/2010 What do you mean no transfusion

So we got to Dr. Te's office on Friday morning, Patty had called ahead and told them she thought we needed to see K. or Dr. Te that morning because of my condition, they took us back to an exam room and waited. It seemed like we waited a long time, but it really was only 10 - 15 minutes, K. came in and had some puzzled looks, it seems the blood test I had taken the night before had my iron count at considerable higher levels 32 instead of 26, so she said we would have to take another count "stat" to find out which one was accurate, because above 30 they couldn't transfuse me that day. She listened to my chest and then made an order that I would need to get a chest X-Ray and some antibiotics to battle what ever was going on inside me. Patty was completely justified being so worried about me the night before. So one of the nurses, Christi took the blood for the test and they also did blood cultures that were to be for growing cultures to see what kind of bugs might have gotten into me. They are suppose to grow for about 5 to 7 days so we'll see next week what that means.

I took my treatment with the Friday Group, but I wasn't in much mood to talk to anyone, I mainly dozed off in the recliner room, although I did talk some more to Tim, the arborist and ex neighbor of Jack Herdt from work. We left the office and went down to get the X-Ray which went pretty smooth, then went up to drop off the RX for the Z-Pack they had ordered, I had a couple of others that were ready for refill so we dropped them off too. We picked up some lunch for me and Patty dropped me at Coral Canyon to rest while she went to lunch with Ann Elite, a friend from the Washington Fields that worked for Patty for a while who also has a husband that is a cancer survivor. I dozed and slept most of the afternoon, which helped me quite a bit. I had to get feeling stronger.

We stayed the night in Coral Canyon without too much incident on my part and got up the next day 5/8 to come back to Vegas to get ready for my week off treatment.