Trip to the clinic

Today, Jerry was outside of the house for the first time since he came home from the hospital late on the 23rd. It was time to go to the clinic for his first checkup.

For hospital time, it really passed quite quickly. We started at the lab where they drew some blood for a variety of tests. Then we went to see the doctor. We met yet another doc, Ken Prince, who was quite pleasant and very thorough. Because of Jerry's noisy chest, he prescribed a couple of medications, one oral, one intravenous, so off we went to the infusion center. (In fairness, I should mention that all of these offices are close to each other and on the same floor of the Winship Cancer Institute.)

While Jerry was getting his iv meds, I went off in search of lunch. There is a small cafe on the first floor where I got a sandwich for me and some chicken noodle soup for Jerry. Almost like a picnic, except for all the nurses and the iv, etc. ;-)

We had a couple of quick stops on the way home (drop off movies, have prescription filled, pick up snack type foods) and managed to get home in the middle of a rather nice rain storm, perfect weather for a nice nap, which we both promptly took advantage of.

Unfortunately, Jerry is having an adverse reaction to our outing (maybe the soup) and has been suffering some nausea. Thankfully, he's not suffered from that very often, but it is one of the side effects of the chemo. His appetite is still way down, but he has been eating regularly, until now. I'm sure this too will pass.

Tomorrow, I have to go into the office to cover our Saturday hours, thankfully a short day. I will be asking a couple of our neighbors who have offered their help to be "on call" should Jerry need anything. He's a pretty low maintenance patient and is capable of taking care of himself, just needs a bit of a hand now and then. Still, it will be very strange for me to focus on business after focusing so completely on him for the past week! Hope I remember how to do my job!

I'm hoping Jerry will blog later and fill in all the gaps. For now, I am going to search for something he might consider eating.
Cheers!