Your patient is a 32-year-old HIV-positive male being treated for Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia; he did well on a course of atovaquone and is now being discharged on pentamidine to prevent a recurrence of the infection. In preparing his teaching plan, you would need to include which? 

a. Pentamidine is an inhaled drug used once every 4 weeks. 

b. Pentamidine is an oral drug that will need to be taken daily for a very long time. 

c. Pentamidine requires very special handling to prevent toxicity. 

d. Pentamidine must be inhaled using the Respigard inhaler. 

e. The patient may also need to be put on an antihypertensive drug while using pentamidine. 

f. Periodic renal, hepatic, and complete blood count (CBC) blood tests will be needed while using this drug.