Monday I had the R treatment of the RICE of course I can't remember what the ICE treatment is but had a good time in the infusion room its sad to say that you get to know all the nurses and some of the people or victims of the nurses. The R treatment is manufactured from mouse urine so I imagine a lab some where with a million mice with catheters that harvest the urine. The R treatment will hook with the B Cells and convince them to commit suicide and I wish them well.
The good news is that I am able to work 2 and 1/2 days this week which has helped me to resolve some issues required to hold RS Designs until I return after the BMT that is Bone Morrow Transplant.
Thursday I will get a bone morrow test in the morning and then off to Ann Arbor for them to install an octopus on my chest this part will enable them to harvest my stem cells with stile. The harvest will start Monday the 12th, and can continue for up to 4 days.
I thank everyone for prayers which have and will make a difference in my continued treatments.
I will try to write after we get to Ann Arbor because I am a mobile type guy.
Hey Ralph! Glad to hear you're still a "mobile guy" Hope it stays that way for a long, long time. Mouse urine? Huh. Poor little mice with their catheters. Probably next to the rehab unit with all the frogs on crutches. But, I guess an infusion is better than putting you in a box with 1000 of them and letting 'em crawl all over you and do their thing drops at a time. Especially since they'd do their other thing too! :-D Okay, enough bad humor.
ReplyDeletePrayed for you and Sharon during my devotions this morning. It's amazing how God has held you up through all of this - to the point you can work 2 or so days during a week of exhaustive treatment with some nasty chemical cocktails. I'd probably be lying on the couch watching Kojak reruns, beggin' somebody to bring me another sucker. Now about this "octopus" thing -what's with all the animals anyway? - is that supposed to latch on to your ribs and somehow draw out the cells over time? Hope it's not too big, bulky or uncomfortable. But either way, hang in there. You and Sharon are held up by much prayer.