We took a slow walk to the clinic today for Terry's blood draw. It got a bit cold as the wind blew, and we were glad to be indoors again. We picked up his fluids from the pharmacy and other supplies at the supply counter. No doctor visit today, just a simple lab.
I did some cleaning today, but it sure didn't take much time in this small place. (I'm not complaining though :) I'm also doing scrapbooking and laundry and have talked with a few of our children today. Terry has rested, is presently watching a game on TV and receiving his fluids. It seems that he should add take meds to the list too, as he has several medicines he takes every day. I have figured it out, and he takes meds about 7 to 8 different times a day, with a total of about 32 individual pills. That is not pleasant for someone who doesn't like taking pills. 12 of them are pretty large and smelly and terrible tasting, but the others are somewhat normal. There are a lot of instructions with these meds - some are to be taken on an empty stomach, some with no dairy within 2 hours of taking them, some with no grapefruit (that one is kinda easy) or fruit juice, some with food, some pills not at the same time as others, etc. It's a bit tricky at times, but we are getting it figured out, and finding a pretty good schedule that works for us.
It is feeling like we have had the "hurry up" part, and are presently in the "and wait" part of this procedure. We thought we had already had the "hurry up and wait" several times, but we might have been wrong ;).
And so, we wait ... happily, for this engraftment to take place. (Engraftment takes place about 10 to 28 days after transplant.)
2 comments:
Sounds wonderful so far so we will wait with you and continue to pray that the engraftment will take and be very successful. Hope you didn't get too cold....I nearly felt frozen to death as we sat in the wind and watched Kristal's Dylan play baseball. At lunch he said the blessing on the food and asked Heavenly Father to bless his to be able to hit the ball at his game and he did. We know prayers are being answered all the time. We love you and hope your night will be a restful one. Happy Sabbath to you both. Love, Ellen
So glad Terry was feeling up to a walk today, that sounds great! If you run out of scrapbooking, I can lend you 5 rubbermade totes full of pictures of my kiddos, only problem is I haven't bought the baby books yet!!
Post a Comment