University of Colorado Hospital 11th Floor Oncology Pharmacist Came to visit August 24 2011

University of Colorado Hospital 11th Floor Oncology Pharmacist, Jeff, came to visit August 24 2011.

He brought an elaborate calendar with all the medications I would be taking related to the 2nd stem cell harvest (I take other medications too like Celebrex, Lovastatin, Levothyroxin, and others that are not included in this calendar)..

Jeff said my hair may take up to 3 weeks to fall out from the Doxorubicin (Adriamycin) primarily. I'm not at all concerned with the hair loss.

The good news is that my Thalidomide pills are in the building!! Just one day late. My Transplant Coordinator, Dana Godec, RN took care of this. She probably devoted much of the morning to this task - making phone calls to the Curaspript Pharmacy that was supposed to deliver the pills and DID NOT and then getting approval from my insurance to get them at a locate pharmacy that she actually drove to herself to pick up the pills. Dana makes things happen and has excellent follow through. I'll get my first pill at bed time tonight.