I should've posted this morning when I had more energy. We almost had a day off from the hospital. They let us do the saline/magnesium drip at home with a portable unit. We had received instruction on how to do that, but when the time came this morning to do it, we were unclear on a few points, so we went in to MDACC to have a nurse observe and instruct as my wife hooked me up to the unit. It involves connecting the liter bag of saline to a battery-operated pump with tubing. The tubing runs through the pump and out to me, where she has to plug the line into the tubing coming out of my chest (my central venous catheter). I think you can see how we might be a little nervous about it. We had to be at MDACC at 2:30 today for a bone density test, so we just went over to the Ambulatory Treatment Center so the nurse could talk us through it. My wife did great. This is Number 695 in the ongoing series, "Things I Never Thought I'd Have to Ask My Wife to Do for Me." Thanks, dear.