karenulijohn

I forgot to explain why Harvey did not come home as planned on Saturday.  Dawn and Claire and I arrived at the hospital at 10:30AM expecting to take him home.  He was a little subdued and said he had to have a transfusion of two units of blood and then he could go home.  However, they had to cross match him again because the previous cross match had “expired.”  The blood would then have to be ordered and irradiated because he is a cancer patient.  This process would probably take several hours.  Each unit of blood is transfused over a period of three hours.  The nurses would then observe him for an hour or so looking for any negative reaction.  The PICC line could then be removed, but he would have to wait a half an hour holding pressure on the arm.  I started adding up all of this time and realized that we would not be leaving the hospital until around midnight.  I just said “NO!”  I couldn’t imagine us going through what we did today, at midnight or later on Saturday.  It would have been a terrible disaster.  Fortunately, Dawn and Claire backed me up, as did the nurse, Antoinette.  Harvey was outnumbered.  He was terribly disappointed, almost to the point of tears.  I might have relented except for Dawn playing “bad cop.”  Thank goodness she is willing to take on the big guy.  Fortunately, he now sees the wisdom of our decision and is most grateful.  It definitely worked out for the best.