No Chemo Today

Mary's blood count was too low to do chemo today. In fact, it was so low she is returning tomorrow morning for a transfusion of whole blood. I'll drop her off at the appointed hour (about 9AM) and Terry has agreed to pick her up after the 5 hour transfusion. However, this IS hospital time so what will really happen is that I will be picking her up at the end of my day...

Mary's hemoglobin scored an 8 versus normal of 11.7 to 13.8 for senior women so she really needs the transfusion. Mary reported the chemo nurse chewed out the Oncologist's nurse for even authorizing her treatment a week ago. The Oncologist's nurse said, "Wait a second" and handed the phone to the Oncologist so he could hear the chewing...

They told us at the beginning that chemo is not necessarily going to behave such that we can trust the schedule. And, we now know that is correct. Mary will find out tomorrow the schedule for her next chemo treatment.