7/4/2011 Independence Day +1

I got a pleasant surprise yesterday on the 3rd. Everyone was happy with how my numbers were looking and they kicked me out of the hospital. I kind of thought it might be coming but didn't dare speculate incase it didn't happen.

Although, I almost went AWOL the day before on Saturday. Something happened to the air conditioning system throughout the hospital and most of the rooms were in the 85 - 90 degree range that wasn't good for many of the patients up there. some of us found a little corner or a room that for some reason was working and was much cooler than the rest of the place. Patty and I took a spot in the waiting room of the BMT Clinic and watched a movie but that was lucky for us, there were some patients with fevers that the staff was really working hard to keep stable. They said the ICU and the NICU were both affected, but we never heard of any bad news, that was very fortunate. They had A/C workers up on the roof working on it and finally got it fixed so we could all go back to our rooms, but they were waiting a while before taking some patients back to be careful.

So, yesterday July 3rd they got me ready to go home, somehow I had eaten enough for them and I had drank enough liquids for them to let me go. I guess I am one of a very small group of patients that get out of there without having a red blood cell transfusion, which is OK with me. I had two units of platelets but that was all.

Patty came up and while she was there, they let me go. I came back to the apartment and went in for a nap that other than waking up to eat and use the facilities a couple of times got over about 11:00 am this morning July 4th, so I had to leave the hospital to get the rest I really need.

Now I don't know what we are going to do about watching some fireworks, maybe we won't since they'll all be past my bedtime anyway.

I am losing most of my hair again, it just started of the past couple of days, I'll probably find a barbershop on Tuesday to take everthing down to the number 2 blade length again.

I have an appointment at the clinic tomorrow morning, that should give me a better idea as to how long we will be expected to stay in Salt Lake. I don't know what their perameters for sending me home will be exactly. I still have the Central Line Catheter in and don't expect they will order it to be taken out until next week some time when they are certain I'm ready to go.

We'll let you know as we know more. I think Amanda is coming up to see us for a few days, that will be very nice. We do thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers, I know they helped.