Thursday afternoon

Dad hasn't felt very good this afternoon...sort of puny. On the way home this morning, he thought some chicken soup sounded good for lunch, but by the time we got home, his stomach was upset so he took a zofran pill. He's had the prescription for this since his chemo in '09 and never used it. We threw out the old pills and got new prescriptions a month or so ago...just in case he would need them. Good thing...he needed them today. So he's been taking it easy in his recliner...trying to nap here and there. He still hasn't had any lunch...not quite up to that. We will need to leave in about 3 1/2 hours to go to the hospital for him to get the other dose that has to be administered 12 hours after this morning's dose.

I decided to take on the patient's advocate job and I called the hospital to find out some details....good thing...the oncology charge nurse wasn't aware that he was coming in. He did some checking and quickly found out the details. So he said to come in about 7:30 (wrong!) for an 8:45 infusion and to check in with the ER to get admitted since admissions would be closed by then. Soooo I then called admissions to see if I could preregister him because I didn't want Dad sitting around the ER room with all the cooties of the universe. Well, whom should answer the admissions desk but Helen...a very nice woman who has admitted Dad so many times for scans, biopsies, tests, that we are now friends. I saw her several weeks ago near the elevator at St. E's and she asked how Dad was doing. So back to today...she said she would have all the papers ready to be signed (since she knows us) and she would be there til 7:00 but said she would wait until we got there. I told her we would be there more like 6:30 or 6:45 for sure. That was really nice of her to do that and nice to know things will be ready.

So for now, I need to figure out something for Dad to eat that will be easy on his stomach before heading off to the hospital. I plan on taking Dad's laptop with us tonight so I can do one last post today to let you know how he's doing.