Day 2. One more day at The BMT Resort

After a decent first day, Richard spent most of Thursday night and Friday morning vomiting (sorry, I couldn't think of a better word here..."being sick" just doesn't cut it). The nurses pumped him full of more drugs to take away the nausea, and he slept most of the day. His snoring never sounded so good. They won't release him until he's eating, so we're logging day two at the Bone Marrow Transplant resort.

Richard's also still on a major hydration bag drip (with magnesium and potassium), something that's very important for flushing the kidneys after receiving high doses of chemo. He is still pretty loopy, and forgets that people have called and what the nurses have said (one more good reason to have someone there as much as possible). His blood pressure dropped even further today...it hit 88/52 at about 7 p.m. Our oncology group's on-call doctor was made aware of the drop, and they're watching it tonight.

The good news is that he started getting hungry around 6 pm, s0 he had chicken broth (oh the joy that is chicken broth after not eating!!), vanilla ice cream, and half of a roll. Nice.

I left the hospital at 10 pm and had to exit through Emergency. I had no idea that the emergency room is THE happening place in Sacramento. It was like a party or something, with people hanging outside, talking and smoking. Children were everywhere. Oh. And it was about 90 degrees outside! How is that possible at 10 pm??

Today's conclusions: Two of life's taken-for-granted niceties are normal body functions and air conditioning.