Mar - April - bone marrow transplant

Michael was admitted March 23. They gave him room 570 at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre and sent him to have a CVC line put in. It took about an hour and he got to be the subject of teaching someone else how to do it. I am never sure if that is good or bad, but it took a little longer than normal because they did. After that they let him go "home" for the day. Home at that point, seeing as we are in Calgary was Gary and Kerry Bennett's house. They have been kind enough to let us share their home. It was a wonderful warm place to land, though it was a bit far from the hospital. Michael has a number of limitations in terms of what he can safely experience, making it a little demanding trying to find places with no kids, or pets, a certain distance from the hospital. Bennetts are farther away than they would like us to be, but we are working of finding somewhere closer. The first few days were back and forth from the hospital, until Michael started having some unexpected problems with his line.
He developed some swelling, redness, fever and a very stiff and sore neck. They determined that a blood clot had developed around the CVC line. He was in pretty rough shape, vomiting, having trouble standing for dizziness. When all of this started we had just found an apartment closer to the hospital and Michael was looking forward to going there for the night, but needless to say both he and I stayed at the hospital that night.