A Loonnggg Day

The first problem was simply leaving Los Gatos. We have three north-south routes out of town and one of them is closed this week while they rework a railroad crossing. What is normally a few minute drive to get on the freeway to Stanford was over 30 minutes today.

When we got to Stanford, about 15 min late at 9:15AM, I went with Mary to the infusion department. She checked in and waited. Mary got in the chair before 10 when the nurse admitted the orders had not come through yet. After a bit, the order arrived and the nurse gave us the time line which added up to about 5 hours from almost 11. Mary did get two units of whole blood. And, she called me about 4:30 and said she was wrapping up so I headed to Stanford. I arrived about 30 min later and she was still in the exit process.

The bottom line was that we left the house about 8:20AM and got home about 5:30PM. A long day.

Mary was told she'd be feeling better tomorrow. As for the next step in chemo, that is to be determined. I'll keep you posted.