Got to the hospital at 7:45 this morning. Did the blood draw thing, the vital signs thing and met with Dr. C. White blood count is 6600, platelets and red blood cells were borderline, but close enough for chemo.
Thursday doesn't seem to have as many infusion nurses as Friday, so it was 9:30 before we got to a chair. There are sixteen suites, I think, each with two to four stations for chemo. There's at least one nurse for each two-chair suite (maybe 1.5, average), but today there was one nurse in our four-chair suite. Still, we were the first in and the first out of that suite -- I think we were done before chair 4 even got started.
The chemo was uneventful, and we were home a little after 11. Diana is feeling okay. Antsy from the pre-chemo steroids and tired at the same time, but otherwise fine.
So now, with some luck, we've got 15 days without a hospital visit -- that would be a record since March. It's raining tonight, and it's supposed to rain tomorrow, just in time to water the new plants in again. And, we always appreciate opportunities to sit on our storm porches.
The photo is of the foxglove in one of the front flower beds.
Enjoy your Friday, and your weekend!
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Hooray for uneventful chemo days!
Now we need to add red cells and platelets to our visualizations :)
You folks have me visualizing all kinds of wonderful things!
It rained and rained here last night and we enjoyed sleeping cozily with the windows open. I slept so well I failed to notice that it rained directly in our front windows, making puddles on the carpet. I suspect it will grow now, producing shag.
Things are pleasantly uneventful here. Mom's birthday was Wednesday (71) and we had her over and harrassed her. This next few weeks is the "family birthday cluster from Hell," in that there are about 17 of us with birthdays. My father in law turns 80 and insists we all go to the Amanas, where we eat the big German breakfast, rife with cholesterol, and make small talk. Then we'll go and take a large family picture, in which the various families are wearing color coordinated outfits. This sort of thing brings out perverse urges in me, the more benign of include a plastic nose and mustache, and the less benign, well . . . .
Seth, I think you should check the spelling of schlamozel [sic]. Is it the essense of being one to mis-spell it?
Walker turns 13 on Monday. (Soon after I turn 49, at the last possible moment.) I don't know if Walker is our "namer," but he tends to come up with memorable one-liners. He walked around a family party last year asking "why is the answer never 'cheese?'" I'm afraid his little acorn did not fall very far from our respective trunks.
Love to all from Cedar Rapids, where life is not that bad.
S.
I could not resist sending this...if anyone will 'appreciate' it- it would be dp. xx00 Katie
A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from the Louvre.
After careful planning, he got past security, stole the paintings and
made it safely to his van.
However, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of gas.
When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an
obvious error, he replied, "Monsieur, that is the reason I stole the
paintings. I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh."
(and you thought I didn't have De Gaulle to send this on to someone else.)
I figure I had nothing Toulouse.
crano-- i love that i get to know your family here
katie-- oy...tis the cezanne, i guess
So glad to hear that the chemo was uneventful and that you'll have a 15-day hiatus from hospital visits. I've heard about all your rain, even way out here in Oregon, and understand that Dubuque Street was flooded in front of the Mayflower this morning. Wow, it must have really come down!
I love the picture of the foxglove, and wanted to tell you that here in Oregon, it grows wild in the mountain forests, but it is nearly all of the pink/rose shades, and oh so beautiful. I'll get my chance to see plenty of it as I make my way across the Coastal Range after work tonight in order to spend my weekend at the beach. I didn't get to celebrate the Summer Solstice yet, and am hoping to find time to do that over the weekend. Better late than never, right?
~Connie
Must say, I did appreciate how uneventful it was. *nods*
cranium man, glad to see that the writer didn't leave when the counselor emerged; even gladder to see that writer here *hugs*
...remind Walker that the answer is often "cheese" when one is in a restaurant, or at a Bar-B-Que... *melts*
Katie, you've tickled all of our phunny bones! *cheers*
Connie! Sounds like there were a number of flooding incidents, and I'm sure we haven't heard of all of them yet.
I've been trying to grow foxglove here for ten years; it's not nearly as shade tolerant as I've been led to believe...
Here's to a belated Solstice Celebration *raises a cup of green tea*
Have a great rest of the weekend!
I'd like to get my hands on Seurat that started this.
Oh and thanks to that good ole' Iowa soaker we're getting, baseball is off and the weekend just got significantly less logistically complicated. I't past nine and I'm still the only one up. R2 got up and then took part of the paper to bed where, unconvincingly, she is pretending to read it.
The kids are wrapped in their sheets looking almost incapable of sarcasm. Tye's on the Persian Rug (of course, wouldn't you be? The best chair is taken).
S.
Well, S, within _your_ four major walls, you were...
I've been up since 5:00 am enjoying the daylights out of that storm! ...as of this morning, I heard we've gotten 6.04 inches in the past couple days! Our new plantings are soakin' it up *yeah*
...were the best chair taken, I'd be back in bed *grins bigly*
The initial of Seurat that started this: S
*smells da feet*
Say, "La Vee!" and make nice.
Please send some of that rain our way!
I am again without internet access at home, as the replacement modem the satalite company sent didn't work. They are sending another, but in the meantime I'm at the library catching up on all the levity I've missed here!
See you all tomorrow night when I am at work!
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