Thursday, May 13, 2021

4 May 2021

 


     I just returned from UW Health after nineteen days in the hospital.  I underwent CAR T-cell therapy, which went pretty smooth. 

     There are a load of side effects associated with the chimera cell infusion, with a rather high likelihood of encountering them.  I went side effect free, sans constipation, leaving me worried that I was not responding.  Last Thursday I was scheduled to discharge from the hospital, when I spiked a fever in the early morning hours.  Ergo, extending my stay.

     I do not think anyone has been as overjoyed as I was to spike a fever.  It told me those chimera cells were doing their thing against the nasty cancer cells.

     I told my nurse Joe, "Now we are having some excitement.".  He probably thinks I am as a crazy as they come.

     Without me being able to pluck unwanted ear hairs, I look like something out of the Hobbit.  I have not been able to do my nails in three weeks, plus no dental floss.  I would make a terrible caveman.

     Jean Auer writes these caveman novels with sex scenes.  All I would think about when reading these is how totally gross this was.  These people had no soap, shampoo, tampons, pads, toilet paper, etcetera.  Disgusting.

     I will be able to sleep tonight without a television going.  Because I am kept on the cancer ward, and not a secure cell, therefore I have an officer in my room at all times.  Which means that TV is going.

     Some officers show some respect and turn it down really low, others have that thing blaring.  I should sleep solid tonight.

     I now must quarantine for fourteen days.  Silly since I am fully vaccinated, and the transport officers who brought me back to the prison were not wearing masks.

     If I am infected, after two hours in a small van with me, they are too.

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Solitary confinement, Dominic draws the cell: https://solitarywatch.org/marak1/