Sunday, June 22, 2008
Yup - our neck of the woods is hot.(<---FYI Dokken is a hair band)
Reuters News says:
"Firefighters are working to contain some 400 wildfires burning across northern California as the state baked in an early summer heatwave (triple-digit temperatures) that has strained the power grid and left residents wilted.
Most of the hundreds of fires scattered across Northern California were started by dry lightning strikes during thunder storms that moved across the state on Friday.
In a 24-hour period beginning on Friday (local time), some 5,000 to 6,000 dry lightning strikes were recorded across the region, leaving crews scrambling to keep up with spot fires."
Pk was camping this weekend and saw all the lighting over the lake. He said it was awesome! He is VERY disappointed that there will likely be no 4th of July fireworks here in Santa Cruz county due to the fire situation. I believe the direct quote is, "That stinks!"
Health Update:
Thank goodness you were not holding your breath for word on my breathing because news is not coming so quickly. The good part - it's not cancer and it's almost positively not PNP because the latest CT showed improvement in the masses in my lungs. This means bacterial infection. Breathing is not super easy (even without the heat!) and I probably have a sinus infection too. On to the Ear, Nose Throat doc & then to the Pulmonary specialist because this is beyond Oncology.
Next in line is my port. A portacath is a device inserted in my body (under the skin) through which medicine, etc. can travel in a tube into my central line and directly to my heart. It is used for the easy delivery of chemo and caffeine (just kidding!) IVIG and saline and antibiotics, etc. You may remember that a port infection nearly did me in back in '04. That one was removed. Well - as it turns out - the body can sometimes try to deal with foreign bodies by wrapping them in tissue. Sound festive? Maybe. But it's bad news for me. There are temporary fixes (TPA and sheath stripping for you cancer geeks out there) but I am not a good candidate for these things.After a fluoroscopy on Friday, it looks like this second port will have to be removed. (Oh joy - oh rapture - o happy surgery!)
I will definitely request interventional radiologist Dr. Juan Rodriguez at Dominican Hospital because I so appreciate his style - and his honesty. He is the one who did not send the lung needle biopsy to Johns Hopkins but it was because there was no order written for it. (All is forgiven. Stuff happens in war and cancer, ya know? I can't get too worked up about it.)
I will be left with two super knarly scars and no contact-lens-case-looking-thingy in my chest. A third portacath can wait because I have enough asymmetrical drama with my piercings (more on that later) and even though my veins are shot - maybe I won't need to have any medicine through IV. How is THAT for optimism?
Stay tuned - more will be surely revealed!
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