Day #1 High Dose Chemo Round 2

Our admission time was set earlier so I was optimistic that things might get started earlier today. Especially with the fact that we got taken from admissions and up to our room around 1130am. Unfortunately, we had to wait for fluids to be dropped and with them watching it very closely due to my kidney function which went up today to 1.6 they opted to give me a lot of fluids. I didn't get my first bag of chemo (Placitaxel) until about 5pm and it is close to finishing up now at 8pm. I'll get two more drugs tonight, Ifosfimide and Carboplatin. Tomorrow it will be the same treatment less the Placitaxel drug. I'm starting to wind down, prior to giving a person chemo they give to a person Benadryl as a precaution to help avoid nausea with the drugs but it makes a person sleepy. Jamie was there for me all day today and I could tell she was getting as tired as I was and she headed back to the Hope Lodge, she ran out today and got us Pizza for lunch being I just don't have an appetite for the hospital food, (I brought boxes of Lucky Charms and Cinnamon Toast Crunch for breakfast). Jamie has really gotten into a series of books and has read nearly five-300 page books in the last week, she just can't put them down and when you spend the time waiting that we do, it really helps to pass the time.

I'm watching the College World Series, LSU vs Rice. Rice was the team that beat Kansas State twice in as many days to knock them out of contention. Kansas State had beaten Rice initially sending them to the losers bracket and they came back thru it and beat Kansas State twice to advance to the Super Regional. I'm watching the ESPN ticker all you Kansas City Royals fans and I see where they are losing 1-0 in the second inning with Zac Greinke giving up a run in the first.

I tried getting roomed with my friend from New Jersey, Nick Pestritto but there were no rooms available so we ended up in different rooms but are optimistic that I might get moved over tomorrow. Its easier rooming with a person you know and with both of us being younger tend to be more considerate of each other's space. I am rooming with an older gentleman, Bob Rappaport. I would say he is a lot like Walter Mathau's character in the Grumpy Old Men movies. Although, I can say he has been nothing but nice to me, he can be rather short with the nurses. His wife has called no less than 8 times and often he doesn't answer it and she lets it ring like 30 times. One time he had the nurse answer it for him while he sat there. Another he answered while the doctor was standing there and the wife wanted to talk to the doctor so he threw the doctor on the phone. The other time the cleaning lady answered the phone when he was down getting a CT Scan because she was sick of hearing the phone ring.

Well, that's about it from here. I shoot out a blog tomorrow with how things progress.

Good Night from NYC