堅持信靠的Brian's Blog

Lunch was a little rushed today. I think my mom was freaking and stressing out over the rushedness of the imminent meeting later on. At first she told me to hurry up and finish my meal, but after she got everything ready, she told me to take my time. I was like, Wut is this?! 
Anyways, the BMT meeting today was very informative- a little too much so, I'd say. I learned a little more than I'd wanted to about it. Right after the meeting, I was premeditated for platelets and blood. I hadn't noticed the day before, but last night I had bumped my arm against the table and, due to my low platelets, it bruised and I now have a purple elbow. Meh.
However, right after the platelet transfusion finished, my parents found out that my body had reacted to it and broken out in hives. Not large ones, though, but they itched like crazy. I almost couldn't stand it! But in the end I did, so it's all good.
So I learned last night that my nurse's dad is a sous chef, and she had some tips for my "cuisines". For example, we had some apple pie laying around and she saw it, and offered to get us some ice cream to go along with it. Yum. For dinner today, I made an improvised Philly cheese steak sammich out of two garlic breads, American sliced cheese, grilled onions, and meatloaf. Y'know, I think I could start a new show on Food Network. It'll be called "MacGyver: Hospital Food Edition". It'll show what I make with the limited resources of the hospital food(s). Aw, man! I forgot to take a picture of the improvised Philly cheese steak! Ah well. I'll just take pictures of it tomorrow when I make it again.
Prayers for today: Pray that Jake's family will find a compatible donor for his BMT procedure,
that my blood counts (which were dangerously low today) can come up quickly, and that my body doesn't react to the blood that they give me.
The BMT lady who came to the meeting kept saying "IF Brian survives the procedure…." but I just imagined that she was saying "After the the BMT procedures…." because I know that this BMT will be successful, and that I still have not finished my duties are not yet completed. I still have a long ways to go before my time here is finished.

Brian