December 4th, 2010 Back home before next trip to Houston

Sooo..... Yesterday I was texting with Adrian back and forth during the day, when he was going to meet with Dr. Alousi and all of that. The last message said he was meeting with the nurse.
After that, I had to leave to pick up Baby O. Drove out and just behind our house in the steep hill I met a black Mercedes... looked at the number plate and it took me 1 second - slammed on the breaks and did a u-turn.
Adrian had driven home to surprise the kids!!

I told him, what if I had driven down to surprise him early with the girls, I would have been in Houston before I would have known he wasn't there. THAT would have ticked me off, just a little bit... :) lol
It was a pleasant surprise to have him home!!

Anyway, he didn't change the central line (don't know why) He did get a blood transfusion - platelets were low. He doesn't have to take more Neupogen shots, since the collection is all done. It took two days for completion.
Sorry for vague information, but he is not asking too many questions when he is there. He turns up for appointments and that is about it.

But to let you all know, he is feeling great. Which is expected in a way, he hasn't had chemo for 2 weeks and I think it is about another week or so before the 'high-dose chemo' before transplant.

Adrian will head back to Houston early this week for check ups and he also has do do the CT, PET scan as well as a bone marrow biopsy. This would be to be 100% sure there is no cancer in his body before transplant.
There are A LOT of appointments next week and up until the 13th of December, (I have linked some of them to WIKI explanations, just click on them) The others are just chats with Doctors or nurses or lab work. None of these appointments are new to Adrian. He has done it all before. Plus there are no drugs involved, he will not be feeling bad or anything.

12/xx/2010	BONE MARROW ASP/BX	Bone Marrow Aspiration
12/xx/2010	BLOOD/SPECIMEN COLLECTION	Diagnostic Center
12/xx/2010	CHEST, PA & LAT	Diagnostic Imaging A
12/xx/2010	EKG - RESTING	Diagnostic Center
12/xx/2010	ALOUSI, AMIN, M.D.	Stem Cell Transplantation
12/xx/2010	SOCIAL WORK VISIT	Stem Cell Transplantation
12/xx/2010	ECHOCARDIOGRAM	Cardiopulmonary Center
12/xx/2010	SPIROMETRY AND DLCO	Cardiopulmonary Center
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12/xx/2010	BLOOD/SPECIMEN COLLECTION	Diagnostic Center
12/xx/2010	INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPLANT	Stem Cell Transplantation
12/xx/2010	STEM CELL PRE-ADMISSION CLASS	Stem Cell Transplantation
12/xx/2010	FAST-TRACK LAB COLLECTION	Hematology Fast Track Lab
12/xx/2010	RECIPT HT/WT STORAGE CONSENT	Stem Cell Transplantation
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12/xx/2010	ALOUSI, AMIN, M.D.	Stem Cell Transplantation
12/xx/2010	BUSINESS CENTER FOLLOW-UP	Stem Cell Transplantation
12/xx/2010	FAST-TRACK LAB COLLECTION	Hematology - Lymphoma Clinic
12/xx/2010	FAYAD, LUIS M.D.	Hematology - Lymphoma Clinic
These can change, be removed or some added in an instant.  :) It is pretty amazing how the MD Anderson network actually works. We log into Adrian's MY MD ANDERSON and it has all his test results, appointments, emails and more right there. My MD A is like your own website with in the network, the pathologists and doctors and all the rest all communicate via this as well. It is incredible how technology works today, back in the days they had to send letters out and that would take days. Here it is all done in a second!!