Post-hopital treat

Here's what I got, besides a new recliner, for enduring all this! It's a killer laptop with the fastest video card for games and a giant 18.5" monitor. Click here.

Scan

I get scanned 6/23 and see the doctor 6/30. Cross your fingers!

On the mend!

Hospitals are behind me for the foreseeable future and I'm getting a little bit better day by day but it will take many weeks to be up to par.

Out of the final IL-2 hospitalization!

I took a bad turn after my 4th and final dose. I had episodes where I could not breath and almost passed out. The IL-2 and general hammering of my body by IL-2 seems to have brought out a rhythm problem with my heart with the top and bottom half not communicating properly. They had to put in a pacemaker. This was very disturbing in that nobody in my family has ever had a heart problem although the procedure was very easy and non-invasive.
I'm out now but very weak from IL-2. It will be days or weeks before I can walk easily. Walking is a chore now since IL-2 effects are cumulative and I was not 100% when I went back in 2 weeks ago for week 3 and maybe 20% recovered when we started week 4.
Now it is time to wait and recover and see how it did!

Final IL-2 week

I've had 2 doses and they skipped one due to blood pressure. They've got the pressure up so we'll probably do 1 more dose. I'm weak and hyperventilate easily. I probably come home wed or thurs.

8 dose side effects

I got home pretty weak. I think it's from 20 lbs of water weight which will probably take a week or so to shed. Food tasted weird but during the night I made a quesadilla and it was good. I had not kept any food down all week so it's nice to see one side-effect go away. It's hard following the advise to drink lots of water when you have water weight but on all accounts that helps you shed it.

Apparently an hour after I left the internet went down at home. Tim called our neighbor Julia, who babysat me this week also (at the hospital) and she brought her IT skills to bear to find that while cleaning they had turned the power bar off that has the modem and router. Cheri (every night), Debbie and Dane also babysat me and they all did a great job helping me get through the experience. I only realized how good of a job they all did when Cheri had to work Friday and I was there alone hoping to get out ASAP (which ended up around 1pm.