Hello. Today is day 9 and I went to my local hospital's cancer floor to get my blood checked. It was annoying. I got there and went to the room assigned to me. They had no orders and knew nothing about me. The nursing assistant told me to take my glove off to put my finger in the thing that checks oxygen intake and pulse. I refused. He told me it wouldn't work with gloves on, I told him it would and it did. After sitting a while my friend called the nurse and asked how long it was going to take because I shouldn't be in the germ environment. She must have looked something up because she came in with a mask and gloves on this time. She told me there were still no orders but would call the doctor and ask.
She came and took my blood for a CBC. She said she was going to start 5 bags of platelets. I told her I am only supposed to get them if my platelets are less than 10,000 and would not get them until my blood was checked. So after being there three hours, my platelets came back at 16,000 and my red was still fine. 'twas a waste of time in my opinion.
I don't know why the Dana farber nurse expected me to need transfusions Friday and said I would probably def need them today. I wonder if I will ever need them?
I should be engrafting over the next few days. Hopefully it all goes well. My bones hurt pretty bad from the neupogen. It's getting worse. I have to take the shots for a few more days. I am going to call the nurse at Dana farber and see if I should be checked again tomorrow or just wait until Tuesday.