Hospitalized

This is Donna writing. Calvin can't come to the computer right now. Yesterday (Thursday) he started seeing blood in his urine - quite a lot of it. We went to Cancer Care for his scheduled chemo at 12:30 today (Friday). He had called them earlier in the day and let them know about this new development. They took a urine specimen and did a CBC blood test. His hemoglobin count was 7.1 - less than half of normal. Also, his blood pressure was 98/60 - very low for him. They started him on IV fluids and cancelled chemo and instead, had him admitted to St. Joseph Hospital in Asheville. So far they have given him fluids in IV and also a blood tranfusion. While I ran home to get Calvin a few things he wanted, a urologist stopped in and expressed his concerns about blood clots in Calvin's bladder. So he ordered a catheter. I missed out on that "fun". Despite 20 mg of Oxycodone and 10 mg of Valium in his IV, it was still a very painful ordeal, almost as bad as when he got one in Arizona last year (see June 10 in this blog). He has also been given Morphine. So for now we just wait. Wait for Saturday morning when the urologist checks him again. A cystoscope will probably be done to look inside his urinary track to try to find the cause of the bleeding. What he finds will determine what happens next.