July 8th

Today I have my bone marrow biopsy and my velcade injection.  The office scheduled them both on the same day for some strange reason.  

Mark drove me to Parkwest at 7:00 a.m.  No waiting at that time of day! So that's good.  I went back and did the  usual, answer questions, give blood, put on my hospital gown and wait....I went back for the procedure at 9:15.  No fears, this would be my 3rd biopsy.  Parkwest uses "conscience sedation". You feel nothing and remember nothing but you are still "awake".  It's nice.

I think I got done around 10:00 because they had to monitor me for 2 hours afterward and that would be noon. So I laid in my bed in the recovery room and enjoyed a turkey sandwhich, a small bag of vanilla wafers and 2 glasses of juice. I was so hungry from having nothing to eat since 6:00 p.m. the night before. I dozed off and on. The nurse kept coming in to check my bandages and my vital signs.  All went well and I was discharged at noon.

Instead of going home, I had to go get my velcade shot.  I showed up but my medicine didn't. They assumed when I didn't show up at 10 for my appointment, that I wasn't coming.  Of course, the pharmacist's were at lunch til 1, so I had to wait to get the shot.  But get it I did and finally went home.