November 16

Both Patient and Nurse Lucha are in bad shape!  Pop Pop spent the entire day at UNC, he left the house at 9 am and returned home at 6 pm.  Fortunately, they harvested 6,000,500 stem cell and they only needed 5,000,000...so no hospital tomorrow!  They harvested his stem cells using a system similar to dialysis.  While it is difficult to convey exactly what he felt today, he says he felt vibrations throughout his entire body and his fingers, toes, lips, and more were numb.  My understanding is that those sensations were due to the loss of calcium during the harvesting.  At the moment he still feels numbness, but not vibrations, as well as nausea, and something that he can't put into words.

Nurse Lucha went for a stress test today; however, she was unable to complete it (bc her back) so she was injected with a dye and scanned instead.  Apparently lying on a metal table for a period of time when you have serious back injuries is not good. She can hardly move and is in intense pain. 

 

So here I am, Nurse (I prefer Dr.) A.  Put Lucha to bed with a third Advil and I have to tell you it hurts just looking at her she is in so much pain.  Then off to hang out with Pop Pop.  He is not happy that Bristol Palin gets to stay on Dancing with the Stars (neither am I, even though I don't normally watch).  Fast forward 2 hours and I made him get in bed (only after he checked on Lucha and gave her a kiss) and then I snuggled him like I did when I was just a little girl.  As soon as we heard the storm roll in, I was given the option to stay or go, so I left.