I/O

Input

• Blood: 4 pints
• Saline: 4 liters
• Heparin: 6 shots
• Neupogen: 2.1 grams
• Levaquin: 8.75 grams
• Bactrim: 5 grams
• Acyclovir: 16 grams
• Zysor: 3x/day by IV, 8 days
• Voriconazole:
• Norco: 150 mg
• Tylenol: ~5 grams
• Ibuprofen: ~10 grams
• Acupuncture needles: ~300
• Radiation (3 chest x-rays, 2 CT scans): ~1000 millirems (average yearly background exposure is ~300 millirems)
• Sestamibi (radioactive dye): 5 ml
• Iodine (radioactive contrast agent): 500 ml solution
• Nuclear magnetic resonance (MRI): ~3.5 hours
• Ultrasound: ~1.5 hours

Output

• Blood: ~750 ml (~150 tubes @ 5-10 ml per tube)
• Urine: ~700 ml
• Bone marrow (2 biopsies): ~100 ml aspirate,  2 solid cores
• Lung tissue (bronchoscopy): trace amount
• Hospital time: 8 days inpatient, 10 days outpatient (full time)
• Blood draw appointments: 18
• Acupuncture appointments: 10
• Arranging logistics of NIH, HCL-related childcare, canceled events and trips, etc.: ~200 hours
• Money: much more than I care to think about. The NIH clinical trial pays my airfare and part of my hotel bill, but we also bought air tickets for Gabrielle, my mother, and Luka for the first round at Bethesda. Then I came back for 3 nights. We also brought my mother to Ann Arbor to help out for 3 weeks.