Jan 30

Debby took Dana to the airport (LAX) and they had to be there at 5am, so when Deb came right to the hospital she was tired and got a few minutes sleep but not much. They had to give me a different bed this morning because the bed I had was an orthopedic bed with bars and handrails on it. They had borrowed it from another floor and the floor wanted it back. The bed they gave me was just the other bed in my room and I found out that the TV sound is much better where I am now. I am amazed at how much the little things can cheer me up, a thing as little as the TV sound could make my day! Sounds like a pretty boring life right now, but it's all I've got! LOL! They gave me pre-meds at 9:45am and my chemo started at a little after 10am. The reason they are spacing the doses out and skipping a day is that the chemo is much stronger this time, so I'm hoping I won't have many sypmtoms, but please pray that I won't. They give it to me again on Thu. and Sat. and then I'm done with it. After that we watch my blood counts fall and then wait until they build back up again. It's frustrating knowing that I'm going to be in here another month. The room they have me in this time has a view, you can see the sky and the new Kaiser hospital that they are building, not much to see but the other room I had you couldn't even see outside. This room, however, is a two bed room and as soon as a private room becomes available I'm sure I'll move there, I just hope it has a view as well. They gave me my next dose of chemo at about 10:15pm and I went right to sleep.