From Jon, Day 5

This will be much shorter than my last post. Hana and I went in and the nurse could not, in fact, get anything out of the PICC lines so they accessed my port and drew the blood that way. Then they left that port line in so they will use it in the future to both take my blood and put anything in they decide is necessary. And they pulled the PICC line, so that is behind me. They say my hemoglobin is going down so they may give me a red blood infusion tomorrow, but that is then.

We were done after a couple of hours and went back to the hotel in time to meet up with Benjamin who came up for his 24 hour stint. Hana drove back to Vienna to spend time with our granddaughters. Benjamin and I hung out in the room, me mostly napping and him mostly doing his medical imaging and modelling work. We had lunch in the room, he ate the pea soup we got from Zabar's. And we went out for Peter Chang's again for dinner, the fourth time for me -- both Alissa and Benjamin have eaten there. And not to worry, we got plenty for leftovers. Back in our room for more sitting around for me and computer work for Benj. 

Tomorrow will be another day very much like all the rest, although they keep saying my sick time will come soon. Hopefully not too impactful.

P.S. from Hana -- once again, I got to see all three of the granddaughters for meaningful visits. I took Thalia on her first golf cart ride and went to visit people on the farm, plus we walked around Blueberry Hill and met people for the first time. I got to babysit Mika and Liana while their mom was teaching and their dad was in Baltimore. They were delightful, building train tracks, eating a civilized dinner, being nice to each other and so sweet to me. I gave Thalia a bath, which she did not appreciate, but it's one of my jobs. Shalini has taken over the late night shift, so I get to go to bed while she plays with the baby for a few hours.

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