06/22/2013: Stem Cell Transplant Day +12 !!! I Go Home!!! 12:15: The vampire comes and take my blood for the usual blood test. 12:30: I knock out, tomorrow I get to go home, sleep will get tomorrow here faster 😛 6:30: I am awake. Saturday, another round of The Rifleman since I am up early,
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06/21/2013: 12:15: The vampire, I mean nurse comes and takes a few more vials of blood for my daily blood test… 1:00: I finally drift off to sleep. 6:30: I am awake. 6:35: The nurse comes in and checks on me making her rounds. 7:45: Vitals, glucose test, the usual morning routine. The nurse tells
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06/20/2013: 12:05: More blood taken and put into vials for tests. 1:00: Time to sleep… 6:30: I am awake. 6:50: Dr. Miller comes and checks on me for her report. 7:30: Shift change. 7:45: Vitals and glucose check. 8:00: Breakfast, another ensure. 9:00: Just getting back on my computer, actually getting some work done and
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06/19/2013: 12:00: Can you guess what time it is? Bloodwork time, fun fun! 12:15: I am tired actually. I am going to turn in early tonight… 4:00: I am awaken for vitals, huh… ZzZzZz 6:30: Another night gone, another new day starting! 7:00: Dr. Miller is in to check on me… 7:30: Shift change. 8:00:
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06/18/2013: 12:00: Vitals again, 3 more tubes of blood 😛 12:10: Still watching TV. 2:00: Bed time I guess…. 4:00: I am awaken, more vitals, some more medicine hung. 6:30: Oh joy, it’s that time of morning, no matter what, I am awake at this time. Just the combination of the bed, being in the
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06/17/2013: 12:00: Oh boy more blood test…. They want to keep taking 3 vials of blood daily, and then they want to give you blood, well if they stopped taking my blood they wouldn’t have to give me any back! 12:10: Back to watching TV. 1:00: OK, I am going to turn in for the
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06/16/2013: 12:15: Blood Test… Victor also leaves a cup for the Saturday night urine tests. 3:00: I am up and I gotta go. I fill up the cup, and hit the nurse button when I crawl back in bed so they can come collect it. 4:00: Vitals…. 6:00: I am up, my dad is up
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06/15/2013: 12:10: My nurse comes in and gathers my blood for my daily bloodwork. 1:00: I doze off. 4:00: Vitals 6:00: I wake up, my dad is watching The Rifleman on TV Land. 8:00: The nurse comes in and checks my vitals. 8:30: Breakfast is served. I am sticking to my Ensures. 10:00: Just taking
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06/14/2013: 12:15: Blood test and vitals time, oh joy. They take more blood from me and fill up 2 vials. Put the pressure cuff on, put the O2 sensor on, and stick the thermometer in my mouth. Then the nurse leaves me to sleep. 4:00: Vitals again… 4:15: Back to sleep. 6:30: Awakened by Dr.
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06/13/2013: 12:15: The nurse wakes me up. Time for bloodwork. She takes the bloodwork. 12:30: Its also Wed Night/Thurs Morning. So they are going to change my dressing out for my Picc line. She takes off all the dressing, cleanses the skin. 12:45: All done. The nurse leaves. Time for me to jump on the
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06/12/2013: 12:15: I am awaken for a blood draw for my labs. I also am weighed and come in at 255.8. 1:00: My wife leaves as I am also going to crash again sleep and just sleep. 4:00: Vitals. 6:30: Dr. Miller Initial Morning Checkup. 7:00: Glucose Check. 7:45: Breakfast is served. Breakfast I find
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06/11/2013: 12:15: Blood taken for lab work as usual. 12:30: I am out of it. Long day. The stem cells are in, but also are their preservative. Everyone says I smell, but I don’t smell a thing. They are all right. I smell like the preservative that was mixed with the stem cells. The whole
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06/10/2013: 12:15: More labs taken as the normal routine goes. 12:30: Just watching TV. 1:00: Weight 257.6 LBS. 1:30: I start dozing off. 4:00: Vitals. 5:30: Back Off to Zzzzs. 6:30: Dr. Miller checks on me. 7:00: I turn on some TV. 8:00: Breakfast is served. 9:00: They start setting me up for the transplant.Â
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06/09/2013: 12:10: Steph comes in and cleans out all my caps on my picc line. She also takes the vials of blood for testing. 1:30: Potty Break 😛 1:45: Just watching Waiting on TV. 2:00: My wife is heading out! 3:00: I turn on Honey I Shrunk The Kids, and fall asleep watching that. 7:00:
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06/08/2013: 1:00: Yada takes my blood, one throw away syringe, one to put into the vials. Yada also weighs me, 259.0. 1:30: I completely uninstall a virus monitor software program on a test server and reinstall the program. 2:00: Done reinstalling, I will continue to work on this tomorrow. 2:15: Time for me to doze
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06/07/2013: 12:15: More blood work, I am still so exhausted. I am feeling pretty out of it from the Thorazine too, I request not to take that again until I need it again. Yeah its great for a no hiccups, but its side effects throw you for a dizzy spell to. 12:30: The nurse leaves,
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06/06/2013: 12:15: Another blood test. another syringe of throw away form my picc line and then a syringe for the test, then they hooke me back up to the line. 8:15: Brad is my nurse today. I get my breakfast, eggs, bacon, muffin, not bad. I eat my breakfast and still a little tired and
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06/05/2013: 12:15: The nurse comes in for my nightly bloodwork. She hooks up to my picc line and pulls out a throw away syringe of blood, and then she pulls out a syringe to fill up to vials of blood for testing. 1:00: My wife is getting tired and decides it is time for her
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06/04/2013: 12:00: My 7/16 dose of Busulfex is hung from the pole and the line hooked up to my picc line and the pump turned on. 2:00: The nurse comes back in and removes the line hooked up to the picc line, my chemo is done. I get comfy and start dozing off. 4:00: The
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06/03/2013: Happy Birthday Dad! 12:05: The nurse comes in and collects my blood in vials to send to the lab or daily testing. 12:15: The nurse comes back in and starts the 3rd dose of Busulfex. 2:15: The nurse comes back in and unhooks the line that was feeding me my Busulfex. 2:30: I turn
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06/02/2013: 12:05: The nurse pulls out about a half inch to an inch of picline. 12:15: She redresses the picline access area. She tries to draw blood but she can’t and she is not happy about it. 12:20: She decides to move my hand down and tries to draw blood again and this time again,
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06/01/2013: 9:30: I wake up and get out of bed. My dad is cooking banana pancakes. 9:45: I sit by the table and start eating these delicious pancakes 10:20: I take a walk out in the backyard with Buster and check out our garden. I see a number of tomatoes that are ready to come
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