We arrived at Tisch Medical Center pretty much on time for Pete's scheduled appointment of 10 AM to have his new port implanted but it was quite a while before the procedure actually began. The doctor who was assisting came out a couple of times while we were waiting and apologized for the delay, explaining that the operating rooms were being used for a couple of emergencies that had come in. When he was called in it was probably around 11:30.
It was close to 2 PM when a nurse came out and took me into the recovery area where Pete was wide awake and anxious to leave. Normally they keep patients for 2 hours post-op, but when Pete explained that he still had an appointment for radiation, the nurse called the doctor to see if she could get him cleared to leave in less time. She brought him a tray of food as he really hadn't eaten anything since breakfast Monday and told him that the doctor had said he could leave after a half hour, so it was a little past 2:30 when he signed the discharge papers. We drove over to the Cancer Center for his radiation treatment, finished that and headed for home, arriving around 4:30.
The snow started yesterday evening and deposited eight inches of the white stuff overnight. That means Bruce and I shovelled close to 1,000 cubic feet of snow to clear the driveway this morning. According to the weather/news reports areas to the north and into the city were hit harder, so Pete called and rescheduled his final radiation treatment for tomorrow at 1 PM.
It seems Pete may be having another outbreak of Thrush, this time possibly cause by radiation treatments to the head. The first outbreak occurred while Gina was here but it began to clear up a few days after he started taking the anti-fungal medicine prescribed by the doctor. He still has some pills so he started taking them this morning. We'll have to get that prescription refilled.
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