Short "sweet" BMT clinic visit

Our weather forecast last night was for a seriously heavy storm to hit the Wasatch Front this morning, so I left for the clinic 12 minutes before 8:00 AM and had the easiest trip so far this winter. I was in the clinic more than 10 minutes early and JoLyn took me right in for vitals and then Jil inserted the line back in my port and collected 7 vials of blood. The wait for results from the lab was short, I suppose because my blood was among the first to arrive in the lab, and the Velcade arrived from the pharmacy so soon thereafter that I was home by 9:30. I don't go back to the clinic until April 19 so we are off to use one of our expiring time-share weeks on Friday. The storm didn't hit until after lunch and we hope it ends before Friday.


In the last post I told about Emma's call to Dr. Curtis's office about the culture he had taken on the visit March 22 and that he was not in the office and nobody could tell her anything. Well, on the 29th his office called to say that the culture showed normal bacteria and that she should eat yogurt and see a dermatologist about the blisters, which we did last Thursday. Dr. Horsley examined the wounded leg and was perplexed when she told him about the so-called normal bacteria, so he had his assistant call Dr. Curtis and have the lab results from the culture FAXed to him. This was not particularly enlightening, it showed no staph infection and did not indicate any preferred treatment. Dr. Horsley took 2 biopsy samples because of the rash she has and then prescribed some pills to help with her itching. The day after starting these pills she had many hive-like eruptions on her legs and arms. I urged her to stop taking the antibiotics that Dr. Curtis prescribed, which she did, and the hives have subsided, but not gone entirely away. She has appointments with both Dr. Horsley and Dr. Curtis on Wednesday and I intend to have her keep both appointments. More after the visits.