Blood Transfusion

It seemed like another long day today. We left here after 8 and were a few minutes late to his 10 o'clock appointment. I don't drive as fast in the rain, and we ran into a traffic jam in Portland. They had trouble drawing blood again from his Port, but it didn't matter for this. He got a little clear fluid before starting the 2 units of blood. The transfusion was just like a chemo treatment - just added blood and did not remove anything. It was almost 3 PM when it finished. His BP was low before they started (117 over 70 something). After the first unit, it went up to 134/80. The nurse slowed up the process a little on the second unit. She said it was probably low due to the lack of red blood cells. He weighed about 163 lbs. after getting all these fluids the past 2 days. The nurse said it will take a couple days for him to perk up. After the tranfusion, he got his shot to buiild up his white blood cells. When we got home, Curt took an Excedrin for "a little bit" of pain. We are looking forward to riding in a limousine to the airport this Thursday and heading to Chicago.