I’ve posted seven new photos taken by my brother-in-law, Ed Robbins, on my
Web site. They’re from the Shabbat celebration on Dec. 19, the night before
I came home from the hospital. I’m really pleased with them – they are
at
http://members.aol.com/hbograd1/
[For those interested in the technology: I’m excited to have learned how to
get pictures onto the Web – we had our photo store send the film to Kodak for
a “picture disk” – that had the right kind of files (*.jpg files) to add
images to a Web page. I went crazy trying to get the pictures to appear on
my Web site until I figured out that the picture disk was using upper-case
filenames and I was using lower-case filenames.]
This was a less buoyant day than usual in our household. Sarah has a cold
and sore throat – I got her to the pediatrician to verify that it wasn’t
strep, and then got her to school around 11. I got nervous about the
fact that she was sneezing and coughing while we were in a closed car
together. (It took me a while to figure out that I could just open the
windows and air out the car). Margie has lost one contact lens and didn’t
bring home a spare, and has a headache from trying to see out of one eye
(Uncle Eddie is bring her replacements tomorrow). I was tired (though now
that I’ve taken a nap I feel better). Then I found out that my blood counts
have continued at a “plateau” since last week – they have been rising and
falling insignificant amounts, but they haven’t risen high enough to start
the Interleuken 2.
Thus it is looking less and less likely that we’ll be able to have our
vacation in Antigua. We’ll all be really disappointed if that doesn’t work
out. My stem cell transplant nurse (Jane Dunleavy) insists that my blood
counts are perfectly normal for this stage, and nothing to worry about – the
only problem is that the kids’ vacation is coming too soon after the stem
cell transplant.
Love,
Harriet
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