September 28, 2008

Today was the fantastic, it made my week! The only thing that would have made it better was if the kids could have come up.

I woke up a little more tired than usual and I had a slow start. It seemed to take forever to eat breakfast & I was still a little gassy from the night before. Randy & Becky Conley my neighbors stopped by to see me real quick before they headed back to London from their weekend stay for the game yesterday. They brought me a snakeskin hair cover/bandanna, a card & real flowers but the desk would not let them bring the flowers up so I told them to take them home to Misty for me. No real flowers are allowed in the James Hospital only fake arrangements due to the immune compromised patients. It was good to see them but I had not had my shower yet & I had just got wrapped up & needed a platelet infusion so they went ahead & left.

My Platelets dropped down to 6 again so I got my 13th Platelet infusion which brought me up to 34. If you add up all my blood infusions I am up to 21 total now, so what everyone donated to date that has sent me their Doner ID numbers I have used them all up & I owe for 5 still. Please donate if you can & send me the Doner ID numbers if you are able to. This truly is the gift of life. A person is able to donate every 8 weeks & for those of you who do not know the Red Cross has a card that says thinking of you, that you can fill out & send to me with that Doner ID number when you donate. These cards are what I am using to track & turn into my insurance company. The blood supplies are low so please, please donate if you can.

Dad & Elaine got here around 1:30, they had just finished my infusion. I asked Elaine to have dad stop on the way here to get me & Marcus Kewpee burgers from Lima tehy are the best. Elaine also brought me Clear skin from Avon & many other lotions & cleansers to help decrease the acne. She also left a scrub top with me that she cut the right side out & replaced with velcro. We figured she only has to cut the sleeve all the way to the collar on the other one so she is going to take it home & fix it. She also left me a tub of peppermints to help with the nausea & Hershey kisses :)

As you can see from the slide show above in addition to Dad & Elaine, Missing Link came to cheer me up. You can't tell because I had to keep my mask on but I was smiling from ear to ear the whole time. Oatmeal, Pixi & JD came from Circleville, Pott's the National President & Carl who is a retired member from Columbusas well. Then from London there was Grace, Alan, Wojo, Cooter, Puppies, Berries, Thumper & the Gobbler.

Against my doctors orders I went for a very short ride around the Ross Heart Hospital courtyard with Oatmeal. There were no bumps it was so smooth but than it was not a Harley either. Pott's told me I would have to sanitize myself when I get back to my room LOL. It felt very healing to have my knees in the breeze. I would have loved to went for longer but I think Grace was going to have a heart attack because she was up here with me when the Doc's said no so I did not push it because I know Oatmeal would have took me wherever I wanted to go. He beat Pancreatic Cancer so I have learned a lot from him with what to expect with this. We joked I would have to get a bio-hazard tattoo after this, like his from the Chemo.

Carl got my tear ducts rolling when he gave me his lucky silver dollar that he carried with him in Vietnam, he told me it always brought him good luck & maybe it would do the same for me. He also referenced Midnight Rider I looked up the lyrics & I agree, I got 1 more silver dollar but I am not gonna let them catch me ...

They all went over & got cookies & sweets. I got a big peanut butter cookie that was delicious but dried my mouth something awful so Berries gave me her ice. It got really warm & the sun felt great but it was wearing me out fast so I told them to go enjoy the rest of the day & ride, but I wanted them to make one last sweep of the hospital courtyard with their bikes first & they all had to crack their pipes. They did & it was the coolest thing. I wheeled over to the side by the road & had my hand by my ear like I could not hear them to get them to do it louder. I hated to see them all leave, it was tough but I will be out of here soon.

Dad & Elaine took me back to my room & I was so tired I could not stop yawning. I had 3 bites of the Kewpee burger & could not eat anymore. It was after 5 so Dad & Elaine headed home so I could sleep. I was glad they both came up together, I did not have a picture of them together so I made sure to get a few. They are in the slide show above.

I put the kids homecoming pictures below, I cut Samantha & her friends head off on one somehow I need to fix it I could not believe how beautiful she looked, I mean she has always been cute but she looked absolutely stunning, all the girls did for that matter. I have not been able to meet Brooke yet but hopefully soon. Marcus tells me she is a really nice girl so as long as Brandon is Happy I am Happy.

After I was alone the wonderful day turned into a very rough night. The Gas came back with a vengeance I got an emergency order for GAS-X because my pains were 10 out of 10 some were worse than labor pains it seemed, it was really bad. Then to top that I had blood in my stool so I do not know what is going on yet they are running tests. My mucosa membranes are sloughing away so it is possible that is where the blood is from, hopefully it is nothing major. I will post what we find out. I was given some Oxycoden to decrease the pain which worked & I was able to get some sleep.

I can't stop smiling even through the pain so I want to say thank you again to everyone that came up, you made me so happy & no pain can take that away.