Day 8 - Not An Easy Day

Yesterday was Day 8 of Jenny's treatment.  She went into MSK for her Chemo "push".  While there she received one unit of a blood transfusion.

She went in with here friend Bonnie.   This gave me some time at home to catch up.  As I have said, Jen and I feel that it makes more sense for me to stay home on these days if possible.  I had a busy day doing things like:
- Getting the insurance on Katie's accident going
- Getting the TV Cable fixed
- Clean more of the bedroom up
- Arrange for a rent a car and getting KT back to school
- Laundry / cleaning / shopping etc.
Nothing really hard but time consuming.

Jenny and Bonnie got home around 11:30pm.  Jenny very quickly started to feel terrible.  High fever (101.7), chills, shakes, vomiting, light headiness.  Called MSK and they advise to get her back in ASAP.

So I got her into the car (not easy as there was a lot of "..get this...  bring that... I need this..).  Finally I told her to get her butt in the car NOW.  And off to MSK we went.  Bonnie offered to come along but we told her she did enough and to go home.  We would call her.

Made MSK in record time... under 75 minutes.  Went through the Holland because of a brain fart but this worked out well as I shot up the FDR drive.  (note: went right past the WTC site.  First time there for me since 09/11.  Another story for another day).

Get to MSK and parked right in front of the main door!  Whisked her out and up to the "Urgent Care Unit".  Once Jen was there and stabilized I went down to move the car.  After parking on the street, I called Bonnie to update her.  As I am doing so, I see her drive past me!  She decide to drive in anyway to make sure Jen was OK!  One wild women!  So upstairs to Jenny Bonnie and I went.

After about 4 hours of nurses and doctors and test, we learned that Jenny's red blood count dropped down to 0.1.  In a healthy person this is usually around 4.0.  For patients on Chemo, they like to have a count of 1.0.  Jen's white blood count was also way down there.  I do not recall the figures.  Leave it to say that this was a very very bad situation and a very close call.  Fortunately she was stabilized and then admitted.  Once Bonnie and I were satisfied, we left.  I got home around 5:45 in the morning.  I am sure Bonnie got home latter.

There is more to this story after the fact.  But for now please know that Jen will be in MSK for at least 2 days.  Once I collect my thoughts I will blog it in.  One last thing, please pray for Jenny.