Tony:
I didn’t want anybody to come visit. You know, I don’t know if that was selfish or what, but I just didn’t want people to see me in the condition that I was in. You know? I was on my last leg.
Desiree:
I wasn’t really allowed to have visitors.
Jackie:
You weren’t allowed to have visitors?
Desiree:
I wasn’t allowed to really have visitors like that. Like my mom and sometimes my sister, only because they were the ones that were already there with me. They didn’t want anybody else really coming through, exposing me to anything.
Jackie:
They had to gown up and glove up and mask up just to come into our room.
Tony:
Yeah that was one of the things they were really worried about with me, too.I don’t know if y’all experienced it or not, but when I got neutropenic, everything changes when you get neutropenic. It’s like a light switch. Everything changed, all procedures, everything changed. Cause you’ve got no immune system.They have to be so sterile. But when they were coming in to clean my room there was no dusting, no sweeping the floor, no nothing. They would bring in this thing, look like R2D2.
Desiree:
Yeah.
Jackie:
You got that, too?
Desiree:
Yeah.
Tony:
Shot this little laser light out.
Jackie:
I don’t remember that.
Tony:
And I was so dumb because I was so drugged up and just out of it, I just, I asked that nurse. I said, “What are you doing? You playing?” I thought, you playing video games in here? I was like, what are you doing? I’m dying in here and you got an R2D2 in here.
Jackie:
I don’t remember that.
Tony:
She said no, this is a machine that sterilizes the room. And I said, wow, this is amazing. It was the first time I’d ever seen that.
Jackie:
Our immune systems were so low that if any yeah, if the dust would have came up you would have been very sick.
Tony:
Yeah, anything. A fly in the window, anything.