Day Plus 7,8,9-Fever Time

I haven't been able to blog most of these days because I came down with multiple fevers. Some resulted in chills, some resulted in getting hot. The doctors and nurses say this is pretty par for the course, although they did say mine were coming on later than others. My mouth and throat are also filled with sores, so swallowing is hard to do these days. Most of my meals have been high in protein Ensure shakes (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry) and apple sauce. I also haven't been able to get good sleep because if it isn't late night blood or platelet transfusions keeping me up, the fevers and the mucositis definitely keep me up. All was not bad however. Mike, one of my old junior high friends, and his wife Charmaine paid me a surprise visit one of the days. Jennifer Lee, one of our friends here in the South Bay, whose husband also had BMT a few years ago, came by to visit.

I'm so thankful that I don't have to go through this alone. God gave me such a wonderful wife in Becky who has been with me every step of way, staying late at times, encouraging me to walk physically and spiritually and do the spirometer, bringing me whatever I need, although I may not be in the best of moods. She truly has been a great helper to me.