Day 62
The slightest thing seems to make our perception of how full John's glass is these days to fearing it may be leaking. We think, and hope, he has a bladder infection. He has been on Cipro since Monday and seems a bit better. If the Cipro doesn't work, he could have something called
Hemoragic Systitis", which I believe is where the chemotherapy ends up burning the urinary tract as it passed. That would be a bad thing.
The cloudy area in his chest from the x-ray proved, via CAT scan, to be nothing. The pain in his neck that he has been having (I could say something here) turns out to be thrombosis in surface veins - basically kind of a bruise.
He is handling the taper from the prednisone well, both as to GVHD and withdrawals. So, all in all, he is holding his own and getting better every day.
Annie Schwarz has come to visit for a time, along with John's mom. They walked a bit today and it wore him out, but the change in company will be good for him. Debbie and I took the opportunity to sail on the lake for a couple of hours toward sunset and then had a dinner of salmon sitting by the water. There are races on nearby Lake Washington on Tuesday afternoons and the boats came back in as we were finishing our sail. The racers engaged in an hour or so of "Duck and Dive" on Lake Union. Basically, there were 50 or so sailboats going in every direction, yelling if they had the right of way and ducking if they did not. It was a beautiful ballet on water from the shore, but to a sailor it feels being a duck in a shooting gallery.
Hemoragic Systitis", which I believe is where the chemotherapy ends up burning the urinary tract as it passed. That would be a bad thing.
The cloudy area in his chest from the x-ray proved, via CAT scan, to be nothing. The pain in his neck that he has been having (I could say something here) turns out to be thrombosis in surface veins - basically kind of a bruise.
He is handling the taper from the prednisone well, both as to GVHD and withdrawals. So, all in all, he is holding his own and getting better every day.
Annie Schwarz has come to visit for a time, along with John's mom. They walked a bit today and it wore him out, but the change in company will be good for him. Debbie and I took the opportunity to sail on the lake for a couple of hours toward sunset and then had a dinner of salmon sitting by the water. There are races on nearby Lake Washington on Tuesday afternoons and the boats came back in as we were finishing our sail. The racers engaged in an hour or so of "Duck and Dive" on Lake Union. Basically, there were 50 or so sailboats going in every direction, yelling if they had the right of way and ducking if they did not. It was a beautiful ballet on water from the shore, but to a sailor it feels being a duck in a shooting gallery.
