Arrive around 8:00 a.m. Today was a good morning when we found out Chad one of our "favorite" nurses is going to be taking care of Ron today.
He is a great guy and takes very good care of Ron. As you can see Ron feels great! But he hasn't been given any meds yet its still early in the day.
8:15 a.m. Get hooked up to all the heart, blood pressure and oxygen monitors.
9:00 a.m. Meet with pharmacist, talk about Ron's meds.
9:15 a.m. Pic line is put in. (Note before that happened he was given some meds to help make that process easier on Ron, he doesn't like this part at all!!!!)
9:55 a.m. Labs and weight taken for base line 192.9 to start.
10:45 a.m. Joan the attending nurse and Dr. Agerwall come in to check on Ron.
11:00 a.m. X-ray taken to make sure the pic line is in the right place.
12:00 p.m. Lab results back...... Ron's creatinine level is a bit elevated so they want to give him fluids to try to get it down a bit before they give him his first dose. Sooooo
1:00 p.m. More fluids and more waiting.
1:30 fluids done more labs...... Ron starting level was 1.59 a normal person with 2 kidneys is .6 - 1.59
after the fluids it came down to 1.48 sooooo he's ready to get his first dose. still not as low as we would like it to be but when you consider he only has 1 kidney and the 1 he has has been compromised it's not too bad.
2:30 p.m. Pre-meds lots of them!!! And finally.....
3:29 p.m. dose #1 has begun!!!
So thats it now its 4:20 p.m. and we are just waiting for Ron to ask me to dance!
Lindsey made some really cute posters for his room for this week and Ron was very happy about them. He loves looking at the pictures of his family!
So in Rons words it's time to fight, fight, fight!!!! Keep him in your prayers! More later :)
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