How good it is to be home once again! Nathan came and got us this afternoon and we pulled into our driveway around 4. I figured out the other night how many days we had spent at Vandy Hospital (our home away from home!) since Jan. 23 and it came to 3+9+6 which equals 18 too many days!
Woody's creatinine level dropped markedly in this morning's lab report--so good to see it on a downward path so quickly this time. It looks like we managed to not compromise his kidneys this time.
He really feels ever so much better coming home this time than he did the last time. Definitely his kidney problem dominated the after effects the last time. He has not slept much the last two nights--he had a lot of trouble sleeping the last time after the infusions were completed too--so guess that is an after effect of the IL-2. I think that he will be able to sleep now that he is home. Hopefully he will have time to catch up on his sleep--with no nurses coming in every two hours to check his vital signs!
We found out last night that it is only the IL-2 patients on the cancer wing who get their vital signs checked every two hours--the rest of the cancer patients just get checked every four hours. Last night Woody graduated to every four hours since he had completed his infusions and had been unhooked from the IV and all the leads. You can "almost" get a full night's sleep when the nurses only come in every four hours!
I am ready to sleep in a bed again. That chair that pulls out into a bed is ok...at first...but it gets old sleeping on it after a while. I am very tired--I'm looking forward to a nice hot bath and then "jumping" (yeah, sure!) into my own bed for a good night's sleep.
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