Day +90

Day 90 and I'm back at work.  My leg and arm muscles are still weak, but I'm working to build them back.  That's my biggest challenge now.  I have to get my strength back.  I walk and do exercises with a physical therapist, but the home visits have only two left.  After that, I'm on my own to get them done.

Anyway, they lifted my dietary restrictions.  Since I'm only ten days away from day 100, they said I have no restriction as long as I make it at home.  Finally, I can eat a salad.  Believe it or not.  When you are restricted to hot cooked food only, you crave things like radishes and fresh lettuce.  I can't go to a restaurant or fast food, but that's ok with me.  At least I can finally have a salad or eat guacamole.

10 days to day 100.  Yay - getting close - buy buy mask -  hello fresh air!

Day +68

I was at City of Hope all day.  They gave me an infusion of immunoglobulen.  Low numbers in my blood counts said I needed an infusion to fight bacterial infections. I wasn't doing it on my own.

It was a really long day (7 to 5), and they also gave me the drainage procedure. YA!  You are not going to believe how much fluid they pulled out.  And they didn't take it all, because it would be too much for my system to be that full and then completely empty. They pulled out a little over four liters of fluid. That's two giant two liter soda bottles. That's ten pounds of fluid I was carrying around in front of me. That's more than a baby!

Anyway, I finally have relief. Maybe now that I'm free from the water belly, I'll be able to get around better.