Day 4

For the most part, today was a pretty normal Sunday.  Did some grocery shopping, some meal planning, and started the deep clean of our house in effort to make as sterile as possible environment for Andy.  

This started by cleaning our master bathroom floor and windows with a toothbrush and taking our vents off and cleaning them with soapy water.  I should host a party in my bathroom.  It's sparkly!  

Andy had a long list of things he wanted to get done this weekend, but after receiving his 10# lifting restriction (and learning that a gallon of milk is 9#), his list was quickly shortened.  However, in between the things he wanted to do, he also cranked out a pretty tough puzzle with Oliver in ONE DAY! No photographic evidence...so just take my word for it.  

Around 3:30 we were reminded why we are being homebodies and reminded of our cancer journey.  So Andy took his Imodium and we headed back to our home away from home...Froedtert.  

Today Andy received his 10, 11, 12 Neupogen injections.  Hopefully these are last injections of this type for YEARS.  Then today we received a new injection - Mozobil.  This shot starts to pull all those stem cells we've been growing for the past several days out of Andy's bone marrow and into is blood stream.  I am SO excited to see what his ANC numbers are tomorrow!  

Mozobil is a new injection for Andy and so we had to wait out a 30 minute observation period.  Rockstar Andy of course, had no reaction.  

And guess who our nurse was today - Gina!  She sat and talked to us the entire 30 minute observation period.  Of course she answered any questions we had, but also just chit chatted with us making the time fly.  

OK, you are probably wondering why Andy took Imodium earlier (and Andy is probably wondering why I shared this with you...) one of the more common reactions of the Mozobil is nausea and diarrhea.  We went to our appointment equipped with ginger chews, ginger essential oils, peppermint essential oils, and lavender.  None of this was needed and Andy's GI track is doing just fine.  

Seriously.  He is just amazing.  

We said good-bye to the Cancer Center and headed up, ready for our big day tomorrow!