Health update

Well it has been two weeks now for me and I am just now starting to feel better. I was taking Amoxicillin for five days and there was no change. Yesterday the doctor called in a prescription for a Z-pack. I took the two pills last night and feel much better already. Four more days of it and I now feel sure I will live.

Gennie started to show signs of the same illness. Her oncologist didn't mess around. She started taking cipro yesterday. This morning she is already feeling much better. Thankfully!!! What this all means is that thursday we are going to MCV to continue our journey with MDS/BMT. Gennie will have her next bone marrow biopsy. Gennie's brother Spud has received the test kit form MCV and is mailing it back to them this week. Let's hope he is a match. If not the search begins.

Gennie had an appointment with her local oncologist Monday and her hemoglobin count was low. She has decided not to have another transfusion yet but wait until next visit to see where she is at that time. In the mean time she will need to be careful as ever not to be around folks who are not feeling well. Unfortunately she is stuck with me. 

We have been reading constantly about all of this. The doctor recommended we read as much as we wanted but warned us about  chat rooms and blogs. His warning was that they can either be very pro or very con to the extreme. I have not found that but not all of the reading leads to the happy ending I am hoping for. I have found that this is knowledge too. I would rather know up front that this can be difficult  than learn that along the way.

Time to get back to living. I feel I have missed so much this past week. I am not a good sick person. I don't like sitting around feeling sorry for myself. I am ready to take another pill and get back to life. Now if I could only figure out how to access my bank account since Wells Fargo took over Wachovia. Maybe then I could pay my bills.