Oh What A Night!....

Unfortunately, I am not referring to the Abba song. Yesterday was a long day for me. Here is my somewhat montage' aka Billy Nicks from Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, and Coors Field. For some reason I don't recall seeing a montage' from the trip to Citizens Bank Park, oh wait, we weren't awake long enough to create a montage'....haha. Maybe the next trip is to New York City, by the time this is over I will know all the spots to go, and we could make it a double dip Yankee Stadium and Citifield. We probably even have to invite Barnes as a courtesy.

1245p: Arrived at the hospital for my 1pm admittance
130p: Frank the Nurse Practitioner drew my labs, the blue port wasn't working and he said that it would have to be flushed upstairs.
300p: Taken to the 5th Floor Room #531 (was able to get it worked out to be placed with my friend Nick who is in the same treatment as myself)
315p: Melissa my nurse asks for a urine sample, she also checks the blue port and it works fine, way to go Frank!
330p: Melissa my nurse informed me that from my urine sample my Creatinine is high at 1.7 and they won't administer the chemo unless it is 1.6 or less. To remedy this they give you lots of additional fluids.
530p: After two bags of fluids and re-testing of my urine my Creatinine lowered to 1.3...time to get things started.
531p: They hung the Zofran and Amend which are both anti-nausea medication and take about 30 minutes to drip in.
600p: The first cocktail of the evening is served: Taxol or Placitaxol as it is also known, this is the lone drug where I am the true guinea pig, Nick who is in the prior cohort received 510MG, I am the first person to receive 530MG. This drug takes 4 hours to drip into your system.
800p: From the prior blood tests they notice that my Glucose level is up, a normal persons is less than 100, mine is at 200.
1000p: Time for the second cocktail of the evening: Carboplatin, this is a short one that takes about a half hour to drop in.
1030p: Time for my nightly Lovenox shot
1045p: They prick my finger to get a reading on my Glucose and it is up to 251. The nurse said that any time its over 200 the nurse have authority to administer insulin. If it gets over 400 then they have to call the on duty doctor the nurse said a person could go into a coma at this point....that was reassuring.
1055p: Received insulin shot in my arm....this was painless.
1130p: Last call for alcohol, the third and final cocktail of the evening Ifosfomide, this drug takes about 2 hours to drop into my system. Its slow to get hung because the pharmacy attempted to fill a 500MG bag with 650MG of drugs, Liz our nurse had problems with both Nick and my bags and had to send them back to the pharmacy which caused a bit of a delay.
1224a: I finished up reading a chapter in a book
130a: The Ifosfomide is done, but from my prior lab work they want to give me both Sodium Phosphate and Magnesium to keep my counts up.
330a: My machine is beeping, it is done with the two prior mentioned drips.
335a: Wondered for just a second if the Royals game is over and how my Dad is going to be on-time to Wal-Mart this morning.
426a: The nurses want to get my vital signs, all looks good
530a: The nurse brings me in my synthroid pill and a protonix pill which they say will coat your stomach.
630a: I get up and pee for the 25th time in the last 24 hours, a new personal record.
730a: I get up and walk for a half hour around the floor about 15 laps which they say is equivalent to about a mile.
800a: Ordered breakfast, an omelet, English muffin, and bacon
830a: They come to prick my finger again, good news the insulin worked, count is down to 135, don't know if I will need another insulin shot.
920a: Foods here, stomachs grumbling, I gotta go.