Friday, January 28, 2011

1/28/2011 Back in Salt Lake, The Treatment Begins

We left Vegas Wednesday afternoon, Amanda came with us to help get us up here and get us settled, she's going to fly back Sunday afternoon, we were happy to have her, she did a lot of driving and really helped us, thanks to Ryan for agreeing for her to come. It was pretty traumatic on her after having to leave the girls in Ryan's care. We should have taken some pictures of the packing job we had to do to get everything inside the Sante Fe for the trip, it was full.

We spent Wednesday night in Coral Canyon with Bruce and Cara, that was good, then I got up and went to my hearing doctor for an appointment, then we left around 10:30 and went out to say hello and good bye to mom and dad, they were down in Hurricane, then we hit the road. We also had the time to stop and say hi to Kim in Provo and got to see new baby Jessie, and Daniella. It was good to see Kim and her new baby, Jessie is a very good baby and still sleeps a lot but is growing and gaining the weight she needs to be doing right now. Kim looks really good after her pregnancy.

We met the real estate guy in the Gateway again and then went to the condo to sign the papers and to get the condo turned over to us. The girls spent the night putting things away and then we watched some TV and went to bed in preparation for our appointment this morning at LDS Hospital BMT (Bone Marrow Transplant) Clinic which is on the 8th floor of the hospital.

We got up this morning and left for the hospital, we found a Burger King on the ride there to get a little food in ll of our bellies. We checked in to the BMT and they took some more of my blood then we waited to meet with Dr. Hoda and with Cindy Nordling, my patient coordinator. Dr Hoda talked to us for quite a while and answered many of our questions about the timing and schedule of things that will be happening over the next couple of months. We went over my blood numbers and they were all very good, they all moved closer to where the doctors wanted them to be. It was a good meeting/appointment with him and we came away with more answers that we hadn't had before. Then we went back to the waiting room and spent some time talking to some other patients that have different cancers, it was interesting and a little weird to talk to them, but it was good and got to hear about other peoples experiences with their issues and with LDS Hospital. After my medicine came up to the floor they called me back and gave me the first day's shot of Nuepregen (not sure of spelling) which is the medicine that stirs up the stem cells and gets them to start heading out into the blood stream so we can start collecting them next week. I'll have the same shots on both Saturday and Sunday and again Monday morning, then on Monday Jan 31st they will do a little more to me, I'll talk about it later.

Then we went to Wally World to do some shopping and came back to the condo to eat lunch and relax and rest, I am very grateful for all the help and work that Patty and Amanda do for me every day and everything they (especially Patty) will be doing for me during the next few weeks.

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