And So it Goes...

Tuesday has been a flurry of activity compared to the hum drum of Monday. The pheresis team came up first thing this morning and we got my treatment going at 8am. They would have started sooner, but the Calcium wasn't ordered and the pharmacy had to mix up a bag for me. Once that got here things went along smoothly. No tingling or pauses at all.

Apparently TTP comes to the hospital in groups and another woman was transferred in yesterday from Montgomery. She wasn't as low on platelets as I was when she came in, but has severe allergies so is reacting badly to the treatment. I guess I never thought about what you eat goes into your blood and plasma, so those traits carry over to the donor. I'm going to go down and say Hi later.

Jason stopped by for lunch today and we walked our loop through the hospital walk ways and he told my mom and I about his company donating older scopes to the Birmingham Zoo. One of his co-workers got to go to the zoo this morning and see an otter get a colonoscopy. While I'm sure it was not exactly comfortable for the otter, the good news is that they had new equipment, previous they used the same scope for the otter that they did for the rhinoceros... ouch.

While walking we saw these signs around the hospital saying call this number and tell us how we are doing. Easy. We called. Not so easy. We wanted to let the hospital know how great their blood bank and pathology people have been, they said they would send up a form that we could fill out and then turn in at a certain office somewhere. I suppose if they put that on their signs no one would call.

I contacted the university today about getting set up on VPN access so I can start working a little more from the hospital and home starting this weekend. They haven't gotten back with me yet, but it's busy so hopefully sooner than later. Even though I can't be in the office I'm still trying to stay on top of everything I can before it starts boiling over.

The pheresis team says that I am doing great and look great. They rarely pheresis people once they have hit the 200,000 mark and really think the doctor should let me go home. We like them a lot. Here's me being pheres'd with the lovely machine of the day and our tech Cindy. She's been great! I'm making my own platelets and red blood cells now so possibly one more treatment on Thursday or Friday and then I'm out of here!