Day 9, Friday:
We got out on Friday as planned!!!! Eric needed both blood and platelet transfusions, which take forever, especially inpatient. They run it slower since it's safer and they have a captive audience. However, we wanted to GO! In the evening, I asked our nurse to let the day shift know we wanted to get started early so we could get out. Our day shift nurse must have taken that as a personal challenge. She was in at 8am for vitals and meds, called for blood and got that started by 8:30. She had platelets ready to go just before the blood finished and was done the transfusions by 1pm. In the meantime, Eric made me play Yu-Gi-Oh with him and I won! Eric said he might have been too big for his britches, ha! I guess he was pretty confident he would win and forgot about beginners luck. I told him I needed to pack up so he asked Ashley from Child Life to play more Yu-Gi-Oh with him and he beat her twice!
I was all packed up when the transfusions finished at 1pm. Our nurse de-accessed Eric's port and we hit the road! The doctor had brought discharge papers in the morning so that we could go as soon as the transfusions were ready. We got home about 2:15pm. Eric was so funny. "We're home and we get to stay!" "Oh, the couch is so comfy!" "I get to sleep in my own bed!"
He slept for more than 12 hours last night and spent all day today on the couch in his pjs. It was a good day :)
We're back to clinic Wednesday for a check up and blood work.
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