This Should Be a Quiet Week

This week we don't expect to have news. Jon goes back up to Hopkins today so they can watch him give himself his first Neupogen shot (to stimulate stem cell growth). He knows how to do it and we tried to talk them out of it before we left  but they want to look at the package of syringes and make sure it all looks right to them. Trust nothing. Plus they want to check his blood because that's what they do every time they get a chance.


At the end of that long day yesterday (7:30 - 5:30), I said to Jon that it felt kind of like a long airplane ride. Stuck in a small space with a lot of rumbling going on all around, a bathroom within a few steps, a flight attendant stopping by now and then. He was flying first class because he did have a bed. But the TV didn't work so we didn't watch movies all day, as we would have if we were flying to Hawaii. 

So far it doesn't seem that he has felt any side effects. He did sleep most of yesterday -- said he felt drugged -- but no nausea or vomiting or any of the other things they had on a list.  He let me drive home yesterday (that was my whole job).

You can take a break from thinking about all of this until maybe next Monday. In the meantime, there are still tires to repair and lots more work on the Horse Barn and that big tractor has another problem.


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