Sandi at Rehab--Day 6

Rehab continues and might be a bit better today as staff members apparently have communicated to each other and straightened out some things. She is back getting another two units of blood by transfusion. That means she made it a week without a transfusion. Way better than the 48 hours or less that was much of the last four weeks.

Sandi Update 6/19/17

Took one load over today and then went to the hospital. She is doing a little better. They took the cath out and she had a shower with a lot of help. She is having more blood today so she was falling asleep when we arrived. We hung out a little while with her and then headed out. Came here and boxed some more of my many books. After unloading and boxing another bookcase, we are calling it quits for today. There is lots to do here and at the house, but I have to get smarter about pacing myself as well as Scott who is doing all the heavy lifting.

Sandi Update 6/18/17

After yesterday's scare when her heart rate and BP soared during the second transfusion causing them to put Sandi on a heart monitor and inject multiple drugs into her, today has been a bit calmer. No blood transfusion today helped that situation. She is still NPO which means a clear liquid diet. She also says that her hair, which was evacuating her head a bit the last couple of days thanks to the aborted chemo, is now all gone as the nurses took care of that today.

Scott and I stayed home as the heat yesterday did a bit of a number on me. Been out in it way too much these past couple of weeks and it has played havoc with my own health issues. I hate the summer. So we stayed home today only to have the AC unit upstairs pretty much go out on us this afternoon. Blowing a little cold air, but nothing like it should. So, after trying to box some things upstairs in our bedroom, I retreated to the lower level and have spent much of the day the floor in front of the box fan watching television. Not very productive, especially with so much to do here, but the body was not going to be cooperative on so many levels.

Sandi Update

Blood work today indicated things are a little better so they left her alone and she did not have to have a blood transfusion. She is still having severe chills episodes and sleeping a lot, but those side effects should fade as she gets further and further away from the last round of chemo and blood transfusions.

We go back Tuesday for another check of everything. If everything is still relatively okay, they will start working on scheduling Sandi for another PET Scan to re-image the cancers and see how she is doing.

In the meantime, our weekend plan is to just hang out and relax with football games and Longmire if we can get streaming to work, and other TV stuff if it won't.