Dad is doing just fine today. He got through this morning's chemo and this evening's without a hitch. He ate good today at all meals...he's had no trouble with food. We walked (again, at a very brisk pace) for 1 mile this morning just following chemo, and again a little bit ago...another mile. When the doctor heard about that, he seemed fairly impressed. So we're taking it easy right now and will be heading to bed fairly soon. The good part is that when you do this cooperative care plan, you don't have anyone waking you up during the night to take vital signs and such. Now if someone needed to have a nurse check up on them, they would be there. Since Dad is doing fine, he'll just have the usual blood draw at about 5:45 AM tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow is the last day of his 2 times a day chemo. Then on Tuesday it's a short chemo just in the morning. Wednesday is the big day...transplant day.
Since I don't have anything else to report, I thought I'd show you what our home away from home looks like :
Scenes from our room:
This is in our room...it's Nurse Ratchet's work station.
This is one of the long hallways in the Med Center. It's where Dad and I go for our mile walks. It's a very long hall!
Another part of the mile walk.
Another hallway that we also walk in.
The view down below, as we're walking.
I love that movie, No time for Sergeants....Will Stockdale PLO (permanent latrine orderly) When he makes all the toilet lids go up at the same time for inspection, it's just to funny. They just don't make movies like that anymore!
ReplyDeletethanks for the pictures! glad you guys are doing well and keeping busy. keep it up, dad!
ReplyDeleteWell we are back in the big O! Let us know if you can have any visitors. We have a lot of catching up to do. Glad to hear everything is going well. Keep it up! Take care.
ReplyDeleteI keep trying to think of something we could do for you but I come up empty. Would you like us to get your yard cleaned up for spring? Would like us to bring anything up there for you? Please let me know.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your quiet time!
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Cool dorm room, man! Bonus: it's co-ed!
ReplyDeleteJust saw your question. Tim did chew the ice at least 30minutes after the chemo. He loved the popsickles and ate many of them after the transplant. They ordered up 6 at a time and kept them at the nurses station with his name on them. I wonder if they would do that for Leo and keep them in the freezer in the treatment room area? I went down to the nurses station often and just got them myself for him. Hang in there because the transplant is right around the corner. It goes so fast and easy that it is almost anti-climatic. Call if you ever feel like talking. Julie and Tim
ReplyDeleteThanks, Julie! We've been stockpiling some popsicles for the last several days...putting them in the little freezer in our room. That's good to know about keeping the freeze on for a half hour afterwards. That's part of my Operation Overkill philosophy! Thanks for the advice, Julie!
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