Ed still doing well, though greater fatigue today. On the other hand, less hand tingling and none of the GI stuff. Eating is fine. Today was also the day when the portable pump completed dispensing its chemo, leaving us to turn the pump off, flush the lines, and remove the line from the chest port.
I felt genuinely as if we were embedded in medical school education theory, which is best summed up in the phrase: "See one, do one, teach one." We skipped the first step, more or less, and just did it. Now, if you have any need to learn how to do this, we can give instructions. It was definitely a 2-person job. On the line flush, I say, "Is it saline, then heparin? Or heparin then saline?" and Ed replies, "White then yellow." He starts to disconnect the line and I say, "Clamp on first," and he puts the clamp on. The actual removal of the needle from the chest port was pretty unnerving since it's a kind of 2-part device and I didn't see how the second part disconnected. But it turned out when you disconnect the first part, the second part disconnects automatically. Kateri told us to put the needle device in a coffee can. I did.
So there we are. There we are. There we are.
