Good thing I filled the car up with gas this morning

Where did I leave off?  Oh yeah, I was inhaling salad while typing this blog while packing clothes for Eric in case they didn't release him from LDS hospital after he received the three units of blood.  I timed myself at being home less than 30 minutes before heading back to the hospital.

Eric was having a great visit with his friend when I returned to LDS hospital.  I was so grateful!  Eric's color was a lot better after receiving the blood and his vital signs were all good so they let us leave at 9:30 p.m.

Today was supposed to be Eric's second day of chemo, but they told us not to come until they had analyzed his white blood cells from yesterday.  After I called the doctor's office twice they realized the blood smear had been sent to the wrong lab and they wouldn't have the results until Monday.  So at 2:30 they called us and asked us to report to the lab at LDS (weren't we there less than 24 hours ago?) and have new blood drawn.  Then we were to go to the cancer clinic and wait for an hour for the lab results.  At that point they would give Eric the chemo.

After hanging out for an hour at the clinic they received a preliminary report that Eric's platelets were low and he needed a platelet transfusion tomorrow, so we had to drive to Intermountain Medical Center to have blood drawn to type the platelet transfusion.  They didn't have enough information yet to give us the chemo today.

While we were at IMC I received a phone call from the doctor and we found out that Eric's white blood cell count had gone down significantly from yesterday, which is good.  He has a few more blast cells, which is something they are watching.  But he is good to start his second round of chemo tomorrow.  So it is two days late and many miles later, but we are good to go. 

I am grateful we live close to excellent medical centers.  We have met so many people who drive from all over Utah to visit the doctors and hospitals that are less than a half hour away from our house.  We are so spoiled!