Back Again So Soon?

Yes!  We are back at Stanford for another week.  We had a great week at home.  Greg really did recover more quickly than ever before and so when our good friends the Crandalls came in town for a few days, he was pretty much game for whatever, including swimming and completely submerging his PICC line several times.  (He never did 'fess up to the admitting nurse why the dressing on his arm was so bedraggled).

The Howes also met up with us whenever they could and we had a great time.  We took the kids to Apple Hill on Friday.  The biggest attraction by far was the fishing (especially for Dana)

After paying $8.50 a pound for all of those beautiful rainbow trout (they fine you $100/fish if you dare to throw them back), Cecili and I had no choice but to clean, fillet, and fry them up for lunch.  We are not sure why Dana didn't come over for that?? 

We all spent rest of the weekend, swimming, eating, talking, laughing, playing video games, going to our kids' sports games (they must be good friends, right?).
The teenagers even squeezed in a midnight tennis grudge match.
















So now Greg and I are once again enjoying the hospitality of the BMT Unit (Bone Marrow Transfer) Room #130.  This is our favorite of the two rooms in the hospital that can house a patient undergoing IL-2.  This particular type of immunotherapy is only administered on the BMT Unit because the protocols are so similar from a nursing standpoint (the level of monitoring required).  This room and the one that we were in the first week (which is directly across the hall), are the only two that are located in the BMT Unit, but that are also situated close enough to the Cardiac Unit (next door) that they can do remote cardiac monitoring and their machines will still pick up the signal.  So coming back to the same room week after week is good, but does add to the days just blending together.  You would expect this from Greg who is on so much medication.  I am not sure what my excuse is.

So he is 4/4 as of the 6PM dose this evening.  He has been feeling even sicker this time, earlier in the week, than ever before.  Probably partly because he had the shortest break between weeks of treatment.  But of course we are so grateful to be here and to know that it is giving his body what it needs to get well.  And so we just pray that our time here this week will seem to pass as quickly as possible.