Discharge from the hospital

Karlee got discharged from the hospital this afternoon; not a day pass, but an actual discharge.  Yesterday afternoon the Oncology pharmacist came at spent about 30 minutes going over all the medications we needed to take home and administer on a regular basis.  She is on Dexamethasone (Dex), the steroid, twice a day.  She is also on Ranitidine twice a day to help coat and protect her stomach from the Dex.  We still need to get her on 400 units of vitamin D once a day.  Then on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday she will be on a compound antibiotic to help prevent any infection.  We also have a couple of drugs that we can use as required for nausea.  These drugs will continue on a regular basis for at least the next 23 days.


She also has to return to the hospital on days 8, 15, 22 and 29 for additional chemotherapy (some injections and some into the central line) as well as lumbar punctures and bone marrow aspirates.  These are only supposed to be day visits for 4 or 5 hours assuming everything goes well.


Vivianna stopped by today and tidied the house and folded some laundry.  It was great to come home to clean floors and a neat house.


Karlee was happy to be home, but wasn't so keen on the animals bugging her.  Carlynn delivered a wonderful home cooked soup that was great.  It was so nice to be able to eat together at the table and to be eating good food.  Hospital food and takeout only go so far.  We had a nice family walk and stopped to visit Mark, Vivianna, Alex and Ariana on the way.  Karlee got to have a bath and then took her meds and had a snack before heading off to bed.

Tomorrow is supposed to be a nice relaxing day at home and then Ryley and Dad are going to head off to the football game.