Treatment #5

I should have blogged yesterday, but I didn't.  I will tell you why later.

Wednesday was to be treatment #5, and so far with every treatment Tracy is wiped out until late evening or sometimes until the next day.  So I planned to go back to Troy, visit the doctor myself and take care of few things back home, and meet with our accountant, Tom.  

I got up a little after 6:30AM and was in Tracy room by 7:00.  We waited until 7:45 for a nurse to come up and take us to the 1st floor for treatment.  While we waited we Tracy still was sleeping, just like the day before, it was a bit disheartening.  But when we moved Trace from her bed to the gurney, she woke up smiled and murmured a bit, which brought a smile to my face.  We went down the elevator; I really wish I had a nickel for every elevator ride, to the PACU unit, don't ask me what it stands for because I forgot.  They were ready and waiting, I spoke with Dr. Taylor, the guy who wrote the book on catonia, told Tracy my plans for the day and kissed her goodbye as thought I was off to work.  

I went back to the Med Inn, ate some breakfast, showered and was on the road by 9:00, well 9:15; I had to make a stop on the way, yeah, Starbucks.  Got an Americano and was disappointed, boy do I miss my SoRoSbux back home.  I arrived at home to Drew and Murphy a little after 10AM, I made good time.  Went to the doctor, got my allergy shots and found I did in fact have sinus infection.  Ran back home, took Drew to lunch and went to the bank, made it to my SoRoSbux (had a Robicano, as Alex called it, by the way it was perfect, that's why they are MY STARBUCKS!) and dropped Drew back off at home.  I then went an met with Tom for about an hour, picked up some antibiotics, filled the car with gas and headed back to A2 (Ann Arbor).

When I got to A2 our friends Don & Deb Paquet where here they stayed a couple of hours and we were seeing some responses from Tracy as we talked.  This was very encouraging.  After they left I went back up to the room and sat with Trace.  All of a sudden she just kind of woke up and started responding to me in word, well as best as she could and we conversed for the next hour or hour and a half.  I don't know how long but it was over an hour!  I did most of the talking and Trace responded with answers, mainly only one or two words, but sometimes complete short sentences, "notebook moments" as Adam and Rene call them, but it was heaven on earth to me!  So please forgive me for not writing yesterday, but I didn't want to come back and think, I just wanted to soak it all in.  I found out as I left that the nurse had not given Tracy a dose of Ativan and that was probably why she was so lucid.

I got wonderful night of sleep as you can imagine.  Got up this morning and went over hoping to continue where we left off, but she was exhausted and sound asleep.  So off to the secretary of state to get tags for our car and truck, only to find out they do not take Visa.   So back to the Med Inn to get the checkbook and meet Tom (our accountant) and Eric (a mutual friend).  It was nice to see them; they stayed for about an hour and a half.  When they left I headed back to the secretary of state, with the checkbook this time and then to the mall.  I picked up a pizza on the way back and ate some of it before heading to Trace's room.  Had a little small talk, nothing like last night.  But still time with Tracy!

This brings back to the Med Inn, cold pizza (I like that), and the blog.

Tomorrow is treatment #6.  I hope to spend sometime with the doctor and tell him about Wednesday night and maybe get her Ativan reduced some.

I am also opening up the takethemameal calendar for dinners for Drew next week.

So with that I bid you good night, morning or day.

Oh, it was also pointed out to me that I have my Jimmy V. quote wrong.  It's "Don't Give Up ... Don't Ever Give Up!”  But I like my version better so I still will give him credit but use my version instead.

God Bless and "Never Give Up... Never Ever Give Up!

Rob