Pictures: Dave supervising garden planing; Garden 1- beans and stuff; Garden 3 lettuce, cucumbers, egg plant and sage; Garden 2 peas (planted around the branches) and plan to tomatoes.
Dave got up around 9 am. We started getting ready for a work day with our friend Elliot Skjordal. About 11, Dave said he has to blow his nose gently. There was still trickling of blood and it started to increase. Call to oncologist..."to the ER". In the mean time, I went inside and noticed Nikki had gotten into a container of peanut butter cups and someone ate about 12 small ones. I feared the worst and gave both dogs hydrogen peroxide until they threw up. Unfortunately it then became obvious that Nikki had eaten all of them. Poor Ruthie- I couldn't take a chance. By the way, I know to do that from a story a long, long time ago that involved our first dog Sadie and super glue.
After knowing the dogs wouldn't get sick from chocolate, we headed for ER. It was so nice to see our friend Catherine Thomas there. The MD came in and put liquid cocaine on cotton up his nose (Dave said OK). The cocaine constricts the blood vessels. After about 15 minutes he checked and then put another packing on one side with Neo-synephrine nasal spray on it (kinda does the same thing). Then we found the culprit. Dave's platelet count was down to 9,000 from chemo (normal is 150,000 to 400,000). They discussed with the oncologist, gave him a unit of platelets and we were out of there in about 2 1/2 hours. YEAH! Thanks again Catherine for being an extra friendly face. What a Sunday afternoon. We'll call our oncologist tomorrow and see when they want to check his labs again. This will not interrupt our trip to NY, NY.... I said WILL NOT!!!
We did get 1 project from the list done today. The vegetable garden is mostly planted. Dave looks so much better tonight after we had a nap around 5 pm.
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