Round one, day 2

Feeling find just a little drowsey. I think the anti-nausea drugs do this. It is hard to focus at times on anything detailed so I do what I can do when I can do it. Yesterday was a good day but very long. I got out of here a little earlier than expected for my usual long Monday -- about 5:45. Friend Debbie picked me up and brought dinner for us and took me home. It was really good, and I ate well. We have left overs from Susan's from Sunday for tonight, so no cooking for Bob. I can't recall when it is I start losing my appetite, but all the fluids they flushed in me yesterday caused me to gain 7 pounds in one day. Ususally by the time I finish at the end of the week I have a net loss, but this yuckky bloated feeling in gross.

A little problem with the wound vac. It would give an error message, drop suckage volume, say it was clogged and then be ok. Sometimes it would shut itself down altogether.
We did most of the things we knew to do from the past and they did not work. We called tech support at 9. He was at a hopsital and said he had 4 hours of work there. He would have to go home and get us new equiptment at 1am and call us. I called nurse Kathy to tell her she may need to be at our house at 7am to get the new sponge changed before chemo since the machine may shut down from more than 2 hours and then it becomes necessary.

A little later I convinced Bob to try the one thing we had not tried -- take the bandaging and tubing off the would and see if it was not the machine itself. We finally did that and discovered the tube whole was not exactly placed over the wound (probably Kathy's fault but the machine should not be that sensitive!). There was some of the wound skin sucked up into the hole and blocking it. Bob fixed it and put in a new dressing. After watching it for about an hour we called tech support to advise him not to call us at 1am about not coming. Part of me really wanted to NOT tell him so we could just see if we did hear back from him. Anyway we let Kathy know as well about 8am so it is fixed, Bob is my hero as always, and all is right with the world.

Paula is coming to get me today and they are working diligently to get me pumped through and out by 4pm. I am getting a little sleepy so I will make a few phone calls in a minute and then take a little nap! Thanks for helping me get through the next to the last round!