Transplant day minus 2

This is when it has really hit Rosalind. No nasty side effects beside fatigue - which, I understand hits most people about now. She has hardly wanted to do anything for the last two days - so no knitting, craft work, emails, TV, DVDs, eating etc. Everything is too much. (Which is why I am doing a few for her) See this link
The good news is that this is the last day of the chemo. She has been hooked up all day today besides an hour to go down to X Ray. A really good thing she did was to walk down to X Ray department and back again, including the stairs - and then had an hours sleep.

The Hickman line can take up to three drips at the same time. As an example, tonight she is going to have six different things. A 6 hour drip of Phosphate, plus two x a two hour chemo drips followed by a flush of that line, and 2 hours of antibiotics.  So it will be more like 7 hours before she is finished. Plus she had various tablets.

Here you can see them using two out of the three lines

Here you can see a typical drip, and one of up to three pumps that can be sued to control the rate, and automatically stop the drip on completion or error

Being tied up like this can make it difficult to go to the loo - Ros leaves the trolley with the drips on outside, with the tubes poking through the door. That saves a lot of energy