Sunday, October 19, 2014

Day +2 Melphalan is in and so are my 3.83 miliion stem cells that have been waiting

Day -1 was fairly unevenful, they came in during the afternoon and got me ready for the Melphalan that was suppose to happen at about 4;00 pm.  The time was pretty close.  One thng that had been happening was they were continually giving me fluid throgh my lines since just a bout the minute they got me to my room E-802 if I hadn't said it enought, so they wanted to make sure that everything was running well, but for me it was a real pain since I am running fat, about 260+/- sometimes less, once in a while a little more, they had so much liquid in me that at one time I was up about 285 and I was pretty miserable.  A little more on that later.  Up to this point nausea hadn't really been an issue yet, I was eating pretty good although I had to be a little careful about wha kind of dishes I let stay around me after food services brought them up.  But I think I got it figured out.

Day 0 - transplant day, started out pretty well, The McMillans wanted to come up to see me, but I had to tell them not to because of the time line and logisticts to work around the nurses and Red Cross worker that took care of the transplant.  They started bringing stuff into the room around 10:00 am and then started the transplant process around 11:00 am.  I had 8 evelopes left from my first collection, here's hoping for some real good ones in there.  They come in a frozen nitrogen cooler and the Red Cross worker is skilled in retreaving them and warming them up to put into my IV.  It probably too 1.75 to 2 hours for the process to be completed.  They checked me out and then told me to rest for the day.  I had the bowl of lemons that I had used before on the transplants, but for some reason, I didn't have to use this one very much and it didn't bother me.  So anyway, most of Friday, my new Day 0 was kind on fuzzy because I was sleeping and dozing for a bood portion of it.  At this point the Nausea is still doing pretty well.

Day 1 - Saturday - transplant day +1.  I slept pretty good overnight, but about 4:00 am-/- I woke up for restroom purposes and made the mistake of taking a drink of water.  There wasn't anything to come up, but it did try, so I think this was my first offiicial bought of nausea for this go around - dry heaves of course.  The nurses are great, they came and gave me some ativan and that settled me down and got me back to sleep.  I got up later, feeling pretty good and even ordered some breakfast, things that were light, not cooked and definitely none of the evil black warming trains whose smell is enough to set me off from 10 feet away.  So I had breakfast, things were feeling pretty good and and then the nurses gave me the cup with all my morning pills in them.  Of course I picked one of the larger pills like I ususally would but while I was trying to put it down, it scraped my throat and the launch sequence really begain.  It didn't last long, but unfortunately I didn't get much good out of the breakfast I had just ate.  Anyway, the nurses and I came up with a little more agressive way to get me my nausea medicine and except for another small case of dry heaves this morning, I'm doing pretty well.  I got up and walked around a couple of times.

Day 2 - Sunday - Transplant day +2.  It's been a pretty good day, took a shower, walked around watch a lot of football and did a fair amount of sleeping and dozing for the day.  The stomach is still not calm by any means, but the medicines that they are giving me seem to be doing a good job.  I think as I understand it, the next few days are maybe not going to be too fun.  The new stem cells have to find their way to where they are suppose to be, and the rest of my system is in stress wondering what is going on.  I hope by the end of the week things start to even out and everything does what It's suppose to do for my recovery.  It was good to talk with mom, Matt, Manda, Holden and Josh today, in addition to Patty's brother Bill who is suppose to go see her tomorrow morning for a while.  Well bless you all and especially those that are taking care of Patty during this time.  Until next time I hope you are all well and safe.

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