I was exhausted by the time we got home from the clinic yesterday at 5:30pm. At various times I was going to be having surgery this morning for the lung biopsy then I wasn't. When I got to clinic, expecting to have my bone marrow biopsy pronto (i.e. a new hole in my rump) that didn't happen. Instead the PA Tanya, sent me over to the surgeon's clinic. Supposedly they were going to fit me right in and do a consult because the chest CT showed more pneumonia. Two hours later we still hadn't been seen and we had left the lunch bag back at the main clinic. We'll never make that mistake again. Finally we saw the surgeon who wanted to surprisingly enough ... do surgery. Tomorrow. Like Today right now I'd be in surgery. He wanted me to go see the anesthesia people immediately, yada, yada, yada.
Only problem was, I hadn't had any of my daily treatments from the main clinic nor had I had my bone marrow biopsy. So Mom and I headed back to the main clinic for those. By the time we got there, all the attending doctors had talked and decided that no I wasn't having surgery today. I am getting better (no fevers, responding to the abx, etc) so they felt waiting was the best course of action.
So here I am getting a few new abx and anti-fungals. Supposed to be even stronger than the old ones. One of them is a medicine that Holly and I infuse at home with a pump every 6 hrs. But I am not in surgery, and I sure do feel relieved about that.
Numbers yesterday looked great.
HgB11.2; plt's 463,000; white cells 8.9
Happy about them numbers!!!
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These photos that Teresa took are from our trip to Italy last year. These shots are from a rainy day in Bozen in northern Italy, a lovely town that is more German than Italian (all the signs are in both languages). As with many bridges in Italy nowadays, locks are left by couples who've proclaimed their love, then symbolically tossed the keys into the river below.
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