Velcade Day

I haven't been feeling very good the past few days. I went into Mt Zion on Sunday for fluids and a blood test. My creatinine is sneaking back up. The fluids made me feel much better and I was able to eat something. Today I am still very weak and short of breath but I was able to (barely) climb down the stairs from the 9th floor when we had a fire alarm. I don't know what caused the alarm.
I was supposed to go in for some Velcade and Melphalan. It was originally going to be Bendamustine but we can't get approval from the insurance company. Dr. Martin is on vacation and the pharmacist was pretty strongly against the Melphalan because of my kidneys. The charge nurse that was there said that it should be OK as they have done that level before for similar patients. I decided to go with the pharmacist's opinion until she could talk to Dr. Martin and work it out. So all I did was Velcade, which I have done before with only very limited success.
The pharmacist's name was Julie, who looked a great deal like my sister Julie, who is also a pharmacist. How odd.