Did I say we had been down this road before? That we knew what to expect? I was wrong.
Every time leukemia relapses it is different, always playing nasty new tricks. This time Roger has had bone pain. He has an infection in his jaw bone that has
caused his jaw to be puffy, droopy and red.
It has now crept up the side of his face and given him a yellow-black
eye. His arms are covered with dark
bruises. Believe me, you wouldn’t want
to see a photo of him now.
He has a head cold, (Did he catch it from me, or from
someone else? No matter …. it’s a moot
point now.) He has a fever and a cough
that keeps him up all night. He spends
most of the day sleeping. He's not bouncing back from chemo as fast. He doesn’t eat
enough to sustain a bird and when he does eat, it is only over-processed foods
like soft white bread, canned chicken noodle soup with saltine crackers. He refuses to eat anything else. There can’t be much nutrition getting into
his system. He frequently seems
disoriented. I don’t know if it’s the
disease, the head cold, the drugs he’s taking, or all of the above, but I don’t
like it.
He is tentatively scheduled to be in Salt Lake City at the
end of next week for a T-cell infusion.
It seems unlikely they would proceed while he has an infection and a
fever. Where does that leave us? At the moment, scared stiff.
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