Guido Tricot

This is Dr. Guido Tricot along with Amelia (the pretty nurse); he was just passing through the Bone Marrow infusion room of the Huntsman Cancer Institute. I have met with him 3 0r 4 times and find him to be very friendly and easy to talk with. I expect to have an appointment with him within the next several days at which time I will ask him if he got around to trying the bottle of wine that I gave to him last month. I did ask about it some time ago and he said he was saving it until he had a few days off, which I expected to be the Labor Day weekend. I think that I mentioned in an early entry that I gave him the wine at the suggestion of Geri Etringer (Patient Family Support).

Perverse laptop

I started off the Sept. 11 blog with this picture, but the accursed laptop saved the blog without the picture. I was busy telling about the plans to start me on a new and different antibiotic right after telling about the diarrhea, which may have so embarrassed the laptop that it saved the blog (without the picture) and effectively shut me down. Emma has just suggested that we go out to the house so I can work on the desk computer, but we are staying in this hotel so that I can rest and travelling back and forth is not restful even when I do the driving.

Maybe the laptop isn't perverse it just has a computer illiterate at the controls. Kersten (beloved granddaughter No. 1) just showed up to help me tame the computer and I now know some of the mistakes that I have been making. I do need to be a "hunt and peck" typist because the touch pad is so sensitive that I send the scroller off the page by accidently letting my thumb touch the pad.

The diarrhea may have been an 8-hour event; no troubles this afternoon. The blood improved my complexion almost immediately according to Marti (another one of the infusion nurses).

Blood transfusion

Yesterday started off miserably, I had so little energy I could not do any pushups in the room and I did not start to recover until after the first of 2 units of blood began to drip into me. Here I am receiving the first unit. My color improved almost immediately and by the time the second unit was finished (4 hours later) I was feeling quite good. We had arrived at 9:00 AM and didn't get away until about 2:15 PM. Rather a tiring day although all I did was sit in a lounge chair.

I get today and tomorrow off and then go back Sunday morning when they plan to start me on a different antibiotic, which has to be administered in the hospital. I assume the new one will be for the same purpose as the vancomycin (kill bugs collected along with the stem cells) and it has to be administered in the hospital. We go at 9:00 Sunday and again Monday and have to go at some undetermined time each morning until the different antibiotic use is completed.