'Day -1' - one day before transplant!!  With the exception of the first day (yucky Carmastine) and today (yucky Melphalan) Faye has been relatively comfortable building Star Wars Lego action figures and watching Seinfeld during the day with her father... in the evenings Bev has been bringing 'classic' musicals on DVD which we watch while we kibbutz about the presidential debates (first one tonight!) and the upcoming election.  Last night we watched '7 Brides for 7 Brothers' and oh brother wow is it ever dated, sexist, horrible and thoroughly enjoyable.  Faye was rather perplexed about it as several of the concepts, I'm happy to report, were foreign and unusual to her.

Apparently transplant will be a very low-key almost anticlimactic process.  After defrosting, they will walk the stem cells to Faye's room, hook them up through her Broviac port and infuse.... About the only dramatic part, we hope, will be the secure escort and monitoring services that will accompany said stem cells.  As they are likened to 'liquid gold' they will be escorted by a minimum of two staff members, one from the lab and one from the transplant team as they are hand carried from the storage facility to Faye's room.  Then they will be continually monitored by several staff members during prep and infusion.  Unlike other infusions, this one will only be complete after a series of 'back washes' to be certain to get every last little cell.

I've been working a couple of days a week these last two weeks; Steve arrives at the hospital in the morning just as I am leaving, and then we swap places again right after work.  I'll be taking tomorrow and Friday off, and probably a good part of next week if not the whole week, depending on how Faye is doing.  Faye is very excited for the impending rain, snow and cold weather and maybe I am too - just a little bit - as it is another welcome diversion.  
~L