The growth factor injection I received yesterday afternoon (mozibil) kind of messed with me. I was extremely tired and my stomach was messed up all day today. Pheresis (stem cell collection) started at 8:00 a.m. My doctor had a goal of collecting 5-8 million stem cells and the nurses set me up for 4 1/2 hours of collection. It was pretty boring, but they have individual tv's, so I got my morning fix of espn followed by Law & Order re-runs. Tida took some pictures but we don't have the cable to download them to the computer, so I'll post them later.
The nurses told us yesterday that even though we had to be there at 4:45 for the daily mozibil injection, we may not know if we needed it until 6:00 p.m. unless we received a call telling us we'd collected enough. I hadn't received a call prior to 4:45, so we headed to the pheresis department for the injection. I was pretty bummed because I didn't want another mozibil injection. At about 5:00, the charge nurse from the previous night called me to the desk and told me I'd collected enough! Shortly after that I got a call confirming the results and they told me I'd collected 14.19 million cells. Needless to say we were pretty happy, but at the same time we were sad for at least 2 of the other patients I shared the injection and collection rooms with. They're both older and have some other medical issues, and it looked like they were going to have to go through at least one more day of mozibil and collection.
We'll start home tomorrow. Services for my dad are Friday night and Saturday, so we'll be able to get home in time for those without any problem.