Nothing seems to be easy during this trip. We went today for the bone marrow biopsy and aspiration. I had this done with sedation and it went well. Since I had nothing to eat before the procedure, we stopped at the cafeteria and I had a bowl of cereal. We proceeded to the Asperses Clinic and as I started to move to the recliner, the nurse said; “ what do we have here” and I could feel something wet and cold. Sure enough the area where they had done the procedure was bleeding rather badly. It took several minutes to clean it up and for it to stop bleeding.

They took blood samples, tested it and my platelets were only 16. I was given Zofran (to keep my stomach “settled down”) then I was given the Pentamidine infusion. Since my platelets were so low, I was given Benadryl and then a transfusion of platelets. I was also given a transfusion of Desmopressin (a platelet binder). Instead of getting back to the apartment this morning, we got back about 3:30 but a least the bleeding has stopped.

We have dialysis in the morning at 6:30 and should be checking out of the apartment around 2:00. We are anxious to get home but with our luck, who knows.