The hospital was freezing!!! Someone told me they keep it 40 degrees in that area, and I believe it. They brought in a cooler and I asked if it was beer:) They showed us the syringe with Steve's name on it and asked us to verify that it was him. The syringe was about 3/4-inch in diameter and had about one-inch worth of yellow liquid in it. These were the umbilical cord stem cells mixed with Steve's own blood serum (remember the 9 vials from Monday...) After sterilizing and deadening his lower back, they inserted a small needle and then a LONG needle inside that one, to keep from contaminating the site with skin bacteria. The syringe was attached to the long needle and the liquid slowly injected. That was it, his first intrathecal stem cell injection. He came back to the apartotel and lay down for 5 hours, flat on his back, no pillow.
Tomorrow is the lipo-suction procedure. We should expect to be at the hospital for about five (5) hours. I went out and bought a jacket today:)
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So....Stevie had LOTS of music to listen to, right? I know that must have been hard (!) for him to lay flat for that long, but being the dutiful geologist that I know he is, just tell him it probably was just like sleeping at Inks Lake with Steve Self and John Wolfe (without the rot gut scotch!!!) in the middle of a HOT,JULY!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove you guys and hang in there :)
P.S. Laura, don't feel so bad...it was cold at the top of Kilauea in Hawaii too!
LP, Thanks so much for the comments. I just figured out that I had to moderate them, before they would be published. Give me a little time, I'll figure things out! Love you too!!
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