This was a day chock full of information, a 3 1/2 hour caregiver/patient class with lots of handouts and good interaction between patients, caregivers, and presenters followed by 5 hours of tests in different hospital departments. I never imagined there were so many different ways to test your lungs and heart. I left my pedometer in the X-Ray room, hope I can get it back. I'm sentimentally attached to it.
There's nothing on the schedule for tomorrow, so we'll go out and do some shopping. They want me to use an electric razor, no blades for fear of bleeding and we'll go to Whole Foods to buy provisions that I'm allowed to eat. I had to eliminate some things I really like. I'll put them on my bucket list for Christmas.
On Wednesday, I'll meet with a Psyco/Social Worker and have a consult with the transplant team. I need to do a Living Will. On Thursday I get my catheter port put in, we have to arrive at 6AM for a 7AM procedure with Dr. Klein. I'm debating whether or not to take a picture, it looks like a pretty ugly apparatus. On Friday, I begin my mobilization chemo/neupogen (a stem cell growth stimulater) for approximately 2 weeks, then high dose melphalan followed by the transplant and a period of recovery.
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