Stay home with me

Dale asked me to stay home with him today. "As you wish," I said. It was a good thing I did. He was very weak, unsteady, and nauseated. By the time the home-care nurse made it over for the blood labs, he developed a fever and it began to rise. We called Huntsman, who said to come on in. Once we got there, he was taken into the clinic to draw labs from both arms to better locate where bacteria was located. The right arm was completed then they began on the left. He gagged, vomited, and passed out. That is when the action began. I do not know how long he was out because I stepped aside to get out of the way so the teams had plenty of space to do what they are trained to do. Several of the staff checked on me almost as much as they worked with Dale. They did well with both of us.

After the chaos calmed, they moved him to the new Huntsman Hospital Emergency Rooms to stabilize and assess. We walked through back halls and into another room with more medical staff. We were only there for 45 minutes or so, when they were able to find a room for him in the new BMT (Bone Marrow Transplant) wing of rooms. It should have been in the ICU but it was full, and BMT is probably a better place for Dale with his lack of a functioning immune system. All sorts of familiar faces came by to check on him. They did a great job. He will be in this room until another opens up for him. Probably will stay for at least 4-5 days to eradicate the infection.

Glad I stayed home.

Reflection of room 4540 with rock walls 

Not too happy to be there but happy that he got there