Out/Home

So… Friday rolls around with promises of me going home.  All the usual visitors and encouraging news is accompanied by a nice breakfast another dose of Prednisone and Allopurinol.  Another stab of Fragmin brings the announcement that Sam wants to clean the room.  He’ll wait until I’m discharged.  You want to take a shower?  Sure.  Oops, you can’t; you still have an IV.  Well, take it out.  Can’t; that’s the last thing we do.  Use the body wipes.  Isabel comes in and says I’ll be ready to go in 90 minutes. Lunch arrives.  I call Bruce to come and get me.  90 minutes later he shows up but I’m still hooked to my damn tree.  It’s getting close to bad traffic time.  The Pharmacy arrives with my confiscated vitamins and a new bag of goodies to take home.  Allopurinol 300mg tab… 1 a day orally until July 22.  Omeprazole 20mg capsule… orally daily until July 22.  Ondasetron HCL 8mg  tab… orally every 8 hours as needed from 6/20 to 7/9 [for nausea and vomiting],.  Prednisone 20mg tab… 5 tablets orally every day for 2 more days on 6/23 and 6/24.

My discharge papers also announce my next appointment on 10 July at 9:30AM in HEM/ONC Bldg. 203 1^st floor 1B, with Dr. Mannis [replacement for Dr. Phillips].  I will have an infusion at 10AM on 1B, room 42.  This will be Bendomustine and the dreaded Rituximab.  I will be released and plan to spend the night in SF returning the next morning for the same thing. 

Nurse Linda comes in and removes my IV; I finish dressing, grab my gear and Bruce and we flee.  In minutes we are stuck in Novato rush hour traffic and I am happy as a clam.