My brother, David, is a maintenance mechanic at Intermountain Healthcare
Central Laundry. Once I got a tour of the laundry and David, or Tech as
his coveralls say, showed me the machines that do thousands of pounds
of laundry an hour. (Sh David, I'm telling the story) Tech tells me that
his big rig machines can get your laundry so clean and they handle the
craziest, grossest stuff. Emma gets sterile clean stain-free sheets and
blankets refreshed every day. Thanks Tech!
We are learning how to
take care of her. The chemo drugs are pretty harsh, enough so that if I
am handling any biological products (puke, pee, and other stuff that
parents just deal with) from her I need to use double-ply nitrile
gloves, and that any laundry we wash with her body fluids on it gets two
washes in a domestic washer.
To clarify, we don't have to use gloves
to touch Emma; she isn't radioactive, nor is she a germ farm or a
radioactive mass. Just that her byproducts have that toxic medication
flowing freely. And the drugs are heavy-duty stuff.
Also, we learned that some of these medications might make her a little nauseated.
So... Hey David! Emma is sending some truly toxic stuff your way right now.
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