Monday morning and awaiting the doc to come in....

Dan had another rough night last night... had extreme headache again. Didn't sleep. White blood counts are way down today... we will talk to doc about that this morning. Yesterday they were normal. Platelets are still up which is good.

Hopefully we will still get to go home today. We are both ready to get back to our house. I am ready to cook for us.

We will post again once we see the doc.

Sunday evening and feeling better.....

Well Dan took 2 hour nap this morning and 2 hour nap this afternoon and he seems to be better. We don't know why he was so nauseated but at least it passed.

We took walk up to 24th floor which is the observation floor. It is very nice there has a grand piano and at times someone is playing it not today though. You can see all of Houston it is very nice.

He ate a fair amount of solid food today so that is good. We are hoping the plan stays the same and we are discharged tomorrow. Even if we do get to go home it will be an all day affair getting everything taken care of to be able to leave. We have to meet with several members of the transplant team including the pharmacist so they can go over all the meds Dan will have when he leaves.
We think it will be like 8 different meds or more.

He is getting excited about getting out of here and looking forward to seeing Roger and Mary.
And frankly I can't wait myself.

We will post tomorrow when we find out the plan.
Everyone have a good night.

Sunday has come in like the roar of a Lion............

Well Dan has been up and down all night with headache and lower back pain. Finally just gave up and got out of bed and sat in recliner. Was drinking his morning juice and had ate a greek yogurt while waiting on breakfast to come. Well all of a sudden he was sick.. throwing up. Bless his heart--they had just given him permission to go off the floor for a walk outside. His counts are all up which is good.

Hopefully this has passed- he is back in bed resting for a little while. He is very concerned this may put a delay in him being discharged tomorrow... but I told him not to worry... just take everything one thing at a time.

He is so looking forward to Roger and Mary coming at the end of this week. I can't imagine what is like to have not left this floor for 30 days.. at least I do get to go outside from time to time. Doing laundry is actually a blessing since I get to leave the hospital.

Keep him in your prayers today that this will quickly pass and he an go home tomorrow.

Saturday and it is a beautiful day in Houston.....

We have been up this morning had a walk and breakfast and Dan is waiting to go down and have chest x-ray they are still trying to figure out why he has this cough. Dan did have solid food again this morning and last night.. throat is healing -still painful but getting better. Neuropathy in feet still the same but no worst he says.

We are still hoping to be discharged on Monday. I went home this afternoon for about 5 hours and did some cleaning so it will be ready for Dan to come home. I stopped and got us some Fajita's and Dan was able to eat one and some rice and beans-- yeah!!

Another new nurse tonight... wish we could have had one we knew. It is hard to break a new one in.
Ha ha! 

Talk with everyone soon!!

Friday brings hopes of going home....

Well Dan is doing good... or as good as to be expected. His counts are low today and he is getting 2 units of blood.. probably will take most of the day. He also has neuropathy in his feet due to the chemo. Just another wonderful side effect of the chemo. It is quiet painful when he walks but he is still taking his walks and pushing through it.

The doc said this morning we will probably be able to go home from the hospital on Monday.... Yeah!!  We will have to return everyday to the clinic and get blood work done and then hang around to see what fluids he will need like magnesium, potassium, blood or platelets. This will be an everyday thing and till counts stabilize.

In the beginning we won't be at the house very much during the day.. but hopefully he will enjoy sleeping in his own bed. And I can cook for us again-- this food is really getting old!!

Will be nice when things get to where we have a few days in between our clinic visits.

Love to all of you!!

Thursday.....

Well we started out pretty good today. Dan is in a little less pain. Unfortunately this afternoon his CVC (central venous catheter) slip out a little more--so they will have to replace it. Not quite as lengthy fix as having to start from stratch but still enough. They will come and do it in his room.

We don't know when but sometime this evening. That kinda got him down again along with the pain he is in.

We are still hoping to go home by Monday. Dan has been able to eat a little more solid food.

Will post a little later on.

Wednesday morning.....

We were up and down all night. The new pain med didn't do anything but make Dan feel blah he said. So we will not ask for that again. He is now asleep so don't know how the throat is today hopefully better and if not may have to do the EGD.

Such a blessing just to be able to be here with him. I am so glad he didn't have to go through this alone.