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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05/30/2013: 9:00: I am up. 9:15: I let Buster out. 9:20: 134 Blood Glucose Measurement. I let Buster back in. 9:30: I jump in the shower. 9:45: I jump out the shower. I still find cooler showers are better, for some reason ever since I started getting sick I can’t take really hot showers or
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05/28/2013: 08:08: I wake up, let Buster out. 08:25: I jump in the shower. 08:30: I jump out the shower. 08:45: My sister Katie is here to pick me up. 8:50: We find my Lidocane cream and the saran wrap incase they are going to admit me or want to take bloodwork. I apply that.
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8:00: My cell alarm wakes me up “Run Forrest Run” 8:05: I am up out of Bed, the usual routine, let Buster out. 8:15: In the shower. 8:30: Out the shower. 8:45: On the way to the doctor’s. 9:00: At the doctor’s, oh boy. I tell him that all my other symptoms have gone away,
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12:00: I am having issues sleeping because of my eyes, my cough, and just feeling miserable. 2:00: My wife puts 2 more drops in both eyes. 3:00: I get up and take some cough syrup along with a sleeping pill. 4:00: I finally doze off… 7:30: I wake up, let Buster out and go to
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05/08/2013: 8:30: I wake up. 8:45: I jump in the shower. 9:00: I am out the shower. 9:05: My dad and I are in the CRV heading downtown to Tulane Hospital. 9:25: We get to the hospital and park in the Cancer Center. 9:30: We get to admit in the second floor of the hospital
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04/26/2013: 8:00: I wake up, let Buster out. 8:10: I jump in the shower. 8:20: I jump out the shower. 8:25: Bending over to pick something up, I pop my nail off of its nail bed again… I popped it off the nail bed last week and put some Dermabond on it to hold it
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04/20/2013: 10:00: I wake up, time to go outside and start prepping for the crawfish boil. My dad is off picking up the two sacks of crawfish… 10:30: My dad gets home with the crawfish. He puts them in the shade and wets them down… 11:00: I start defrosting some shrimp by running multiple small
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04/05/2013: 8:20: I am awake. 8:25: I let Buster out. 8:30: I jump in the shower. 8:45: I jump out the shower. 8:50: I put on the Lidocane cream along with the saran wrap on my skin over the port area. 9:00: I am heading out the house. 9:15: I get to Tulane. 9:20: I
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03/27/2013: 9:00: I am up. I let bust out. 9:15: I check a few things on my computer and respond to a few emails. 10:00: I jump in the shower. 10:15: I jump out the shower. 10:30: My wife came back from her physical therapy and I sit down with her as she eats. 11:00:
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03/19/2013: 8:00: I wake up to Buster crying outside the door because he wants into the room. I get up, let him outside, and then bring him in the room, and lay down to catch some more sleep. 11:00: I am awake, and I know I am not going back to sleep now. I get
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03/18/2013: My Wife’s Birthday! Happy Birthday Dee! 8:00: I wake up, get up out of bed, let buster out, and change and get ready to go to Tulane. 8:10: I take my blood sugar, 135. 8:15: I jump in my Parent’s CRV, since I have to get a new breaktag for my van, and my
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03/17/2013: 11:30: I wake up and get out of bed. As usual, I let Buster out and then prepare myself for the vaynco administration. 11:45: I pull the vaynco medicine ball out of the fridge for it to warm up for an hour. I sit in the lazy boy and turn on the TV. I
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03/11/2013: 12:00: I am just laying in bed, TV on in the background, playing some BlackJack on my phone. 1:00: Still playing BlackJack but the Ambien and the Vicodin are starting to kick in. I am half on half off the bed, but very comfortable. 2:00: OK, with all those fluids pumping into me, time
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03/06/2013: For all of those checking up on me on here, sorry I haven’t been keeping a recent day by day, play by play update, but I am still around. 4:00: I get awaken by a nurse and someone else wanting me to sign a blood consent and wanting for me to be given blood
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02/13/2013: 4:35: I am awaken by labratory. They are coming into draw a peripheral culture. She sticks my arm with no problems and takes a half bottle of blood for the culture. She also pulls some blood for a blood test and trough. 4:50: My nurse comes in and takes 2 syringes of blood. She
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02/12/2013: Mardi Gras Day, so much for going out to the parade route to St. Charles Avenue for my normal parade spot. 5:00: I am awake. I turn on the TV and start watching the Mardi Gras coverage. Mainly the weather reports for the day, and the people already roaming about on the route and
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02/11/2013: Lundi Gras! So much for my Mardi Gras Parades tonight, just here in the hospital. However I am feeling better. 4:30: I am awaken by my nurse who is her to take blood for some blood work. 5:00: I am back asleep. 7:30: I am awaken by the nurse coming to take vitals, oh
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02/10/2013: 4:30: The nurse comes in and takes my vitals. No blood work for me today.I tell her that it is still warm in the room and I am uncomfortable. She takes my vitals and then tells me she will go check about getting another room for me. 4:40: The nurse comes back and tells
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02/09/2013: 4:30: Another wake up call, another round of blood work to see what my blood levels are. My crit has been falling, and that’s not good. I doze back off after the blood is taken. 7:30: Shift change, awakened again by the nurse coming in to take the vitals. My temperature has finally cleared
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02/08/2013: 4:30: They wake me up to draw some blood for checking my blood count levels. I doze back off shortly after. 7:30: I wake up, shift change, vitals time, temperature and blood pressure. I have a temp back down to 100. so my temp is back to a reasonable one, but still a temp
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