Optimistic: Monday going home?

ANC = 2990 (vs 1000 needed to go home)

WBC = 3.69 (vs 4.5 needed to rate low-end-of-normal)

HGB = 8.9 (rising/stable on its own to grow farther from the transfusion limit of 7)

PLT = 38 (rising/stable on its own to grow farther from the transfusion limit of 10)\

The numbers above are so good that they are:

1. suspending my neupogen shots (lest I "overshoot" my targets for white cells)
2. Looking for "exit interview" times on Monday

Tricky part: #2, above, of looking for exit interview times is not quite a promise of "you will go home on Monday" but more like a "if all continues to go as well as it has, we want to be prepared to send you home on Monday."

The exit process will probably cover:

• Is the house clean enough? Final dust bunny eradication is scheduled for today
• do I remember how to clean my central venous line's three heads (yes)
• do I have central venous line supplies at home (yes, about 5 or 6 days' worth)
• do I know what the food rules are (probably: no raw stuff, for a while)
• do I know the larger calendar of things to avoid and things to do (I'm educable)