Puke free since Chemo Three? Yessir! Heidi sure is still . . .

NOT!

This morning began normally here at PGH.  Heidi left for an 8am appointment at the clinic and I left for an 8:30am St Patrick's Day Dash at Seattle Center.  I walked to the starting line in the rain, ran the 5k in the rain and was looking forward to the indoor beer garden out of the rain.  Unfortunately I forgot to take I.D. so I was turned away at the door.  Damn!  No wonderful microbrew Irish stand-ins for me.  So I walked back home in the rain. 

Stay with me, Kris, for we will get to Heidi here.

Sitting at home, looking forward to a hot shower, I get a call from Heidi telling me she threw up at the clinic.  So I put my wet raincoat back on,  dry shoes and socks, and walked in the rain to the clinic.  Heidi was ready to go so we walked back home.  Turned out she just took her plethora of pills on an empty stomach, but it does ruin her puke-free streak.

Got my shower and enjoying reading the sunday paper when the pharmacy calls and says they have new bags of magnesium and Tacrolimus, aka FK506, aka ED209.  So I walk back to the clinic, not in the rain.  Turns out they can't mix Tacrolimus in advance because it only has a 24-hour shelf life.  So I wait 30 minutes for them to mix and dispense.

Got back to the apartment about the same time Dana and Katrina arrived for a visit.  With brownies, mmmmmm.  Unfortunately I forgot to take photos, but we did shoot this cool video of us dispensing a unit of Magnesium (Heidi is in the video; just watch and see).  (Everyone notice I was able to transfer the video to a computer and upload to Youtube the same day?  And some people make fun of me bringing 4 computers here!)  Then the pharmacy called again and said her levels of Tacrolimus were too high and we needed a new bag with a lower dose.  So I suited up again for the trip to the clinic.  I had no dry shoes left so I went barefoot.  Since the steep roads are slick with moss I had to wrap my feet with barb wire for traction.  That did the trick, especially on the uphills, which it is both ways. 

The pharmacy informed me that they changed their minds and the original dose of Tacrolimus was okay for tonight.  Oh well, at least I didn't have to wait for 30 minutes while they mixed.  So I walked back home, uphill. 

Sorry, no photos today.  Only mere words can describe the events.