Lounge

Today started out like most other days here.  I am running out of ways to start blog entries, so for today this is all you get...

We made the five minute walk over to the hospital and got Sarah hooked up for her meds once again.  She is getting most of the same stuff that she has received the last few days.  She rotates the days for the methotrexate with folinic acid another drug that stops the chemo.  They want the chemo to work for a bit and then they want it to stop it.  This is done to slow the chemo down, so it only works for a bit, and then it's stopped and then a few days later it starts again.  Today was a day where Sarah received methotrexate, which is fine because the effects of the chemo is spread out, so she is unable to feel any difference day to day.

Last night Sarah's mouth and throat was bugging her a bit, and when she woke up it was feeling worse.  She popped in a few codeine before we went to her hospital room.  This seemed to help a little bit, but after the codeine wore off she asked for some morphine.  Her pain was kept in check today as she let the nurses know when it started to hurt.  They set up a PCA (morphine on demand) pump, but she hasn't used it yet.  They also set up a saliva vacuum similar to what you see at the dentist, this is to suck out any phlegm that she is unable to get rid of on her own, she used it only a couple of times today.  Sarah did manage to get out to the apartment for a few hours before dinner, so she sat and read stem cell transplant stories while I did dishes.  Sarah is getting sick of staying in her hospital room so we spent a lot of time in the patient lounge today.  We are both very careful to sanitize before and after we hang out in this area.  Currently she is watching The Good Wife while I type this.  After that we will watch GLEE, because she is a gleek.

I try to think of things to share during the day to keep the blog interesting so this is another thing that I found interesting.  Every day, twice a day cleaners come into the room and clean the room from top to bottom.  My favourite guy is the floor guy, he is a middle aged Mexican guy who is always cheery.  You cant understand what he says but he is always smiling and whatever he is saying is funny, I know this because he laughs after he says it.  I am tempted to ask him for a cerveza.  Jose comes in first and then the ladies come in, they never say anything but they wipe down the walls, the windows, the tables, the pictures and the entire bathroom.  On Monday it was test day, this woman came into the room who I am guessing is the supervisor of the cleaning staff and started dabbing some stuff in different places throughout the room.  We asked her what the stuff was and she explained that she would come into the room after it was cleaned and use a light to show her if any of these spots were missed.  Shortly after she left two women came in and snooped around looking for these spots, one woman even went into the bathroom with a flashlight to try and find these spots.  Well that room was cleaned very very well that day.

Time to take a picture and post this entry.  Pray for Sarah in these next few days as the pain from the mouth sores could get really intense.
K

Sarah in the lounge area