T minus 5 (June 12)
Joanne and the kids finished packing up the house for the summer
and drove to Orlando. They made it up in time to bring me some dinner and
then stay on to watch the kickoff of the World Cup in Brasil. Tomorrow they had
their eyes on going to Sea World's water park called Aquatica. At the hospital
the second round of chemo well by without any problems.
T minus 4 (June 13)
I started my day with some more extensive exercising. I'm
determined not to let the stay affect me as much as my first one here.
There's no general restriction on exercise except that I have to always
take the stand. The central line rules do not allow any time off if for
walking around freely. The family stopped by after their Aquatica
adventure, they had a good time there and now have passes to return all summer.
The World Cup had three games so no wasting time on soap operas.
T minus 3 (June 14)
The last day of pre-transplant chemo, there's more to come after
the transplant to make sure my old cells don't grow and the new ones are
allowed to take hold. The chemo was going find, but today there would be
an additional medication called Thymoglobulin, it's derived from Rabbit protein
and is nicknamed the Rabbit. Seems cute a fuzzy enough. They did
tell me that shakes and chills area common side affect. They
weren't kidding. My the midafternoon I felt like I was in a full-blown
cold with aches, pains, and chills. I lost my appetite for dinner even
though Joanne had made a great homemade blueberry dessert. I did manage
to get that down, just like Lard Ass in Stand By Me...
My suffering became worse
during the night and I started to experience some nausea. Several times I
fell to sleep to stave it off, but it was no use. By 2:00am I was
reaching for the plastic bucket and calling for Tylenol for my head. I
spiked a fever, which triggered additional blood cultures and a check X-ray.
I'm feeling much better rolling to T minus 2 but pretty tired.
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