Day 1
We are preparing to go to the hospital and Deb is packing her bags. We have received 4 different arrival times and we will pick the one that suits us best.
Deb will have a Hickman catheter inserted today at 1:00. She will also have a procedure called a mugascan to test the capacity of her heart.Thanks to everyone who called, stopped by, sent flowers, etc. Deb had a very nice day yesterday which is how it should be.
Kathy Goodyear will be coordinating all visitations during this ordeal. The purpose of this is to make sure everyone that wants to visit can visit and that the visits are scheduled to maximize Deb's available time. Kathy's cell phone number is 215.280.6505. I will be in daily contact with Kathy and let her know times and how Deb is feeling.Thanks again to all and keep Deb in your prayers.
JT
posted by Joe @ 1:43 PM
3 Comments:
Deb, the link title "debbiesjourney2recovery" says it all!!!
Donna,Janine,Stefanie, Joanie are all thinking about you!!
Luv Ya!
Kevin & the Smithettes
Day 1 PM
It was a long day for Debbie. We arrived at the Hospital at about 10:00 AM and began the long process of admissions and completion of the preparatory procedures. Deb had a mugascan and a Hickman catherter inserted. She arrived back in her room at 7:30. They began the chemo at about 10:00 PM last night.
Thanks to our friend, Deb has a nice private room 941A in the Ravdin Building. Her cell phone works 215.370.6052 and her land line number is 215.615.8353.
Deb was very happy when her Oncologist stopped by last evening. It turns out that he, Dr. Tsai was the same doctore that took care of her friend Caroline. She thinks that he is fantastic and is very glad to have him. He started a 3 week cycle at the hospital last night -- which will be great for Deb.
Deb thanks everyone for the kind words and cards. I am printing the updated blog for her every day and she likes to read them.
One final word about the blog. It is so popular that it is hard to log on in the evening. If you have done your posting, please sign off so others can log on.
Thanks again for your kind words, thoughts and prayers.
Deb sends her love to all.
Debbie, I'm sitting here having a cup of tea... YIKES! I decided to send you letters of "remember when". Don't tell Kathi. Here we go -
Remember when..... the first time we (Donna D, Kathi, you and me) went to see the Christmas show The Nutcracker with all the girls. Let me go back a little bit. First we all went to the Eagle's Eye Outlet Sale in Conshohocken and bought matching nighties. Then we split up into groups and drove separately to the hotel. We said that we would all meet at the restaurant at 3 p.m.. Of course Kathi and I were late getting to the restrauant (but Kathi and I had already checked into the hotel.. points for us!!!).I brought along one of Kevin's cheeseball's for a snack later on that night but it was still frozen so I set it out on the hotel heater to thaw. As the story goes.... we all went out to the show, had dinner and returned to the hotel for snacks and found the "cheeseball" aka... raw hamburger thawing out on the radiator and dripping onto the hotel carpet. I of course grabbed the wrong item in the freezer and brought it with me to the hotel.
And don't forget the fire alarm that went off in the middle of the night. We all had to evacuate the hotel... in our matching nighties. We took to the stairwell and looked like the Lemon Sisters on the Ed Sullivan Show. We had a ball that weekend.
Love you Debbie..... happy thoughts are good for you.
Love,
Donna
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