DAY 6 - 010107
My mega doses of zinc, Echinacea, Air Borne and vitamin C with Rose Hips didn’t cut it. “Natural” is wimpy when it comes to standing up against a massive dose of chemotherapy - David’s cold is a little worse today.
Unfortunately he’s coughing on top of his coughing. We checked in at the hospital today so they could do their thing with David’s tubes. They checked him out, too. They’ve put him on Zithromycin (an anti-biotic) just to be safe. We want to avoid infection. He’s also on Mucinex to help with the coughing. Actually I think the Mucinex is already helping, I haven’t heard him cough in a full 5 minutes!! Other than that he’s great! I’m on my 5th shawl and it was a good day to hang out and watch the ice melt.
We’ll hang out tomorrow and I’ll be shtooping David with lots of liquids and any nourishment I can get into him. The weather sucks but it’s warming up this week so that makes me very grateful. Happily, nothing more to report for now.
[Patient Update – Robbi pretty much said it all. Although she is unlikely to ever read these blogs I want you all to know that she is the best medicine I could have. As soon as I begin to get a bubble of a thought that I might want something – it’s there in front of me. It’s more powerful than I can explain in words… I’m so thankful for Robbi.
Even with all the studying and research, I hadn’t realized that I will now become neutropenic. This is the stage at which my white cells are insufficient to protect me from infection. My immune system hasn’t been wiped out yet, but the chemo I received was enough dosage to set me back.]
~ Robbi
Unfortunately he’s coughing on top of his coughing. We checked in at the hospital today so they could do their thing with David’s tubes. They checked him out, too. They’ve put him on Zithromycin (an anti-biotic) just to be safe. We want to avoid infection. He’s also on Mucinex to help with the coughing. Actually I think the Mucinex is already helping, I haven’t heard him cough in a full 5 minutes!! Other than that he’s great! I’m on my 5th shawl and it was a good day to hang out and watch the ice melt.
We’ll hang out tomorrow and I’ll be shtooping David with lots of liquids and any nourishment I can get into him. The weather sucks but it’s warming up this week so that makes me very grateful. Happily, nothing more to report for now.
[Patient Update – Robbi pretty much said it all. Although she is unlikely to ever read these blogs I want you all to know that she is the best medicine I could have. As soon as I begin to get a bubble of a thought that I might want something – it’s there in front of me. It’s more powerful than I can explain in words… I’m so thankful for Robbi.
Even with all the studying and research, I hadn’t realized that I will now become neutropenic. This is the stage at which my white cells are insufficient to protect me from infection. My immune system hasn’t been wiped out yet, but the chemo I received was enough dosage to set me back.]
~ Robbi
posted by DesktopDavid at 8:06 PM
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So while you are busy becoming celebrities up in Maine you became re-famous-ized in Mass. by being profiled again in the Boston Globe on 12/31. I'm sure you've seen it. Nice picture of the three of you.
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