In the home stretch

It's been so long since I last blogged anything I had to go back and re-read my last post.  The delay was not caused by increased recovery due to our party January 15.  Although I will state that both 5-gallon homebrew kegs were drained that night.  That solved the dilemma of what to do with homebrew when we travel to Seattle.  I'm glad it was enjoyed by the 40+ people who were here that night, although I wouldn't have minded if they had left a little for me to have the last two weeks. 

The weather has been nice here in southern AZ lately.  It will be tough leaving now, thinking about the 100+ temperatures that will be here when we return in June.  But leave we will this Friday.  We spend four days on the road and are scheduled to arrive at SCCA February 8.  This week is a lot of packing and getting ready.

I haven't written much here lately because things have been remakably usual.  Ever since the last hospital visit early December Heidi has been healthy and happy.  She went through another round of semi-chemo two weeks ago for 7 days.  It was just out-patient treatment for one hour per day with a drug called Vidaza.  I didn't even go with her to the clinic, because it was so easy and low-key.  Vidaza is actually for Myodisplastic Syndrome, not Leukemia.  But Heidi had MDS previously before it transmuted into AML, so they decided it could help.  Actually, they decided she had gone too long without some kind of poison in her system.  Fortunately Vidaza is much milder than the hard-core leukemia drugs, so she seems to be without any symptoms.  No fevers, no fatigue, no transfusions.  Well, she did get a cold last week, but she's blaming me for that.  That's nothing compared to fevers, hair loss, rashes and sepsis.  Cold, hah!  Wimpy virus.  It ain't got a snot's chance in Hankyville of causing us any grief.