Amanda and I left home in good time Sunday morning, many thanks to everyone that has stepped up to keep an eye or two on Patty during my time up here. And thanks to Ryan for letting Amanda come up here with me to help me get settled in. We had a good drive up, stopped in Parowan to see Mom and Dad, we went to Bruce and Cara's house to see them and also got to see Krystal with everyone too. Then we had to go to the Parowan Dairy Freeze to get Corn Dogs for Amanda and I have to admit they make them pretty good and then we were on the road for SLC.
Got up Monday morning and came up to LDS Hospital to have all my pre-admittance work done and then got some lunch and rested until we went to dinner, I picked the Texas de Brazil restaurant that is in City Creek, it was very good and I ate too much, but it was very good. I do have to say that the one in Vegas has a much larger and I think better salad bar than this one does. Oh and I forgot when we went back to the room after lunch, I had to get Amanda her own room because my terrible snoring drove her to spend most of the night in the bathroom tub because even with earphones, she couldn't stay out in the room with me. Brings back memories of the many scout camps I went on with the boys back in the day. I still don't know how Patty stays in the same room with me.
At the Monday pre-admittance meetings they gave me the great news that I needed to be at the hospital to get my line put in so Amanda and I got up fairly early and made it up here on time, of course hospitals are like the government, a lot of hurry up and wait scenarios. I was in pre-op/recovery for a while before they were ready for me in the operating room. I do have to say that once they got me in there, it was a great experience because they got me ready and knocked me out and then woke me up before I knew I'd been knocked out. After that, they brought me up to 8-East, that is the floor that the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit (BMT) has in the IHC LDS Hospital. They didn't mess around at 4:00pm yesterday I had my first dose of Melphalan, the heavy duty Chemo they use to kill any cancer cells that still may be in your body, I had 1% in my last bone marrow biopsy that comes out of my hip. They give two doses of it, the second dose was given to me this afternoon (Wednesday Oct. 15) on my day -2, they count forward and backward from the date of your transplant, My transplant is scheduled for Friday. So tomorrow on Thursday, I don't have any procedures scheduled so the Melphalan will be out of the system before my stem cells get put back in, my 3.83 million cells need all the help they can get to the right places and "engraft" in me - it means they start working and growing and I start making new stem cells and my other cells can grow and do what they are suppose to do. I am quite happy, It is Wednesday, October 15th at approx 9:00 pm Utah time and so far my nausea had not been an issue, I know it will be, but an grateful for the delay in it's arrival.
The staff her is all very good, I remember many of them from being here 3-1/2 years ago and many of them say they remember me too, they have all done good by me. Oh and another special thanks to Daniel that came up yesterday afternoon the visit and take Amanda to the airport so she could go home last night, and then he came back up and we visited for over an hour, sorry Kim for him getting home late but everyone knows how I ramble on and on and on... I will try to write again after the transplant occurs. until next time.
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