My cancer diary:
Thursday - April 5, 2001
[total: day 60][chemo-cycle 2: day 16]

"My father drives me to the hospital as Andrea works early today. We arrive at the department of urology. Check in like always. Normal business. When I arrive at the ward on the second floor I learn that there is no room and no bed left for me.

We have to leave again and move to another building with a satellite part of the department of urology. It's a two minutes drive from the central building.
The building itself is older. It looks a little bit run down, not as newly refurbished as the other one. Still the nurses are very friendly. They are all completely unknown to me. It's like another hospital.

Maybe that is the reason why I feel comfortable from the very first minute. A nurse takes about ten minutes to explain everything to me. What isolation means, why I have to be isolated and so on.

The room itself is on the first floor and has a very big window facing the back of another building. There is a small garden with a big tree in between. I see two magpies in the branches.

The round comes in the afternoon. The doctors explain that I will get Neupogen today. It's a medicine that boosts the power of one's blood cells. It's given to stimulate the recreation of white blood cells for people with a very low count like me. It turns out to be just a small injection, given subcutaneously.

Today is day sixteen of the second chemo-cycle. The scheme indicates the giving of Bleomycin for today. But the doctors fear the low number of blood cells. They suggest to wait another day with the infusion.

I have still big trouble eating things. One nurse proposes later that day to see the dietician. She will take care of an appointment for tomorrow."

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