Tuesday

1. Nurse woke me up at 3 am to begin procedures to get ready for the thoracentisis (drawing the fluid off the longs.
2. Was awake pretty much from 3 to 7 and the surgery being rescheduled and unscheduled and more platelets rolled in to the requirements. The nurse was doing something to me all the time and she was a bit messy. I was always rolling over into wet spots or some syringe cap.
3. At 7:30 the Pulmonary Doc "train wreck" pulled in; they seemed so pleased with themselves that I thought they were here to take me to surgery. But no, they explained "no surgery this morning" blaming it all on my counts.
4. My counts were low on platelets and red blood cells. But it must have been low on something else because I checked my phone for text responses from Lori and realized they were all still sitting on my phone!
5. *****************WBC are 1.0 this morning********************
6. **************Brain cells are way way down this afternoon*******
7. Every time I wanted to take a shower I heard a "not now, Cathi"
8. My room wasn't cleaned until about 5pm this evening. Trash cans were very overflowing. Everyone who comes in here has to gown up in a different bone marrow gown every time. Makes for a lot of trash.
9. aljitawi was very complimentary.
10. Most mouth sores have lost the original scab but will scab over again.
11. Plan a chest x-ray early tomorrow morning, after sleeping with oxygen-thin blood)


I'll try to remember more so I do an update.