Welcome to Day Zero

Thick Heads Require More Radiation

Day Zero, here we are.  It's actually Day 32 at SCCA.  If this was Induction Chemotherapy it would be called Day 7.  The whole day counting problem is a difficult one. If you think I feel like Augustus, indiscriminately inserting months like July and August into the calendar, you're right.

So tomorrow will be . . . not Day 1.  Tomorrow will actually be Day 0 again.  Why is that?  It's not because we are stuck in a time warp.  It is because the bone marrow is arriving late tonight.  It will take a few hours to infuse which means it will be tomorrow (Day 0) by the time it is done.  I think they just like us so much they want to keep us here longer.  Regardless, I'm identifying more with Augustus Caesar than Frank N. Furter so we're not doing the time warp again.


Dress like this to keep the
radiation zombies away



It's late, I'm at the hospital and the last shuttle back to SCCA has already left.  I got the Sound Transit system figured, I hope, so I can catch that from Montlake & 520.  Not much time to write, and less to proofread.  Mistakes R Us.

Heidi is on 8NE, room 8254 at UW Med Center.  Nice view of campus.  Can see Husky stadium, Lake Washington, the Cascades and Mt Rainier from other parts of the floor.  This is the top floor, so don't ask me about other stories.  Phone 206-598-3924.  Visiting hours 8am-9pm I think.  Anybody over 2 who is not sick can visit.  The decision to stay past saturday will be made saturday.  I'll write tomorrow night.  Or call and ask.

Heidi ate dinner tonight, and is feeling much better.  Those of you who called but were ignored should try again.  She is feeling much better.  She is not allowed off the 8NE floor while she is here. 

Beam me, Scotty

The doctor came in a while ago and said she would start feeling worse soon.  Neutropenia from the chemo and radiation will take its toll.  That didn't bother her much last time, but the treatment this time is much more severe.  The radiation people were nice.  Not at all like the people in atomic era B-movies that try to eat your brains.  The let me look around and showed me the klystron for the accelerator and the beam director.  Cool stuff.  Heidi came out medium-rare at best.  Just kidding, it didn't have any observeable effect. 



Bow Down



Cocktail hour at Pete Gross House