April 14

On Friday I had my Hickman catheter replaced. I didn't have any soreness when I got my first one, but this time I was really sore both where the old one was and where the new one was put in. We got home about 5pm to find a message on our answering machine that Kaiser had left at 1:30am Friday. We had stayed overnight at City of Hope Thursday night because I had appointments Thursday and Friday so we weren't home when they called. The message said that one of the cultures that they had taken Monday night when we went to the emergency room was positive and that I should contact my doctor immediately. When I finally got a hold of my doctor's nurse, she contacted my doctor and I was told to go to the emergency room again. I asked the nurse if we could just go to urgent care in Lancaster and she said that would be fine. We went to Kaiser Lancaster, waited for two and a half hours to be seen and they gave me an I.V. of antibiotics and were told that we still had to go to the emergency room at Panorama City. We didn't leave Lancaster until 11pm, went to Pan City and spent hours there only to be told that I was OK and could go home. We left Pan City at 4am and went home two very tired people. We realize that when we need to go to urgent care or the emergency room it will take a lot of time, and it sure did!!! LOL!!! The soreness in my chest on Saturday is less, but it still hurts quite a lot. We go to City of Hope on Monday to begin chemo for my bone marrow transplant, and although I am anxious to get things moving I still have reservations and hope everything goes well. Please continue praying, I can't get thru this without you all!!! God bless.
Ernie