Doing The Moffitt Hokey-Pokey
“If you
start to take Vienna – take Vienna!!”
Napoleon
Bonaparte – on keeping focused on a goal, applying overwhelming force, and not
getting distracted.
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September 7, 2015 Transplant Day +200
A poem, sort of, describing my two day long, +180 day checkups at Moffitt:
Starve
Drive
Paperwork
Scan
Drive
Paperwork
Stab
Poison
Scan
Eat
Checkin
Sleep
Starve
Checkout
Drive
Stab
Bleed
Drug
Sleep
Stab
Extract
Awaken
Drink
Stagger
Eat
Wait
Pant
Paperwork
Wait
Handshake
News
Poke
Happiness
Handshake
Wait
Stab
Stab
Stab
Stab
Stab
Eat
Drive
In English: Drove to Tampa, fasting. Had a bone scan, then a CT scan. Spent the night in a hotel. Work up, fasting. Went in for bone marrow biopsy. Accessed port, had labs drawn, put under, biopsied. Woke up,shook it off, went for lunch. Had lungs tested. Waited for doc, had lots of great news, went to clinic. Had 5 vaccinations. Went home.
The doc took off most of my restrictions, but I am taking it much slower than he seemed to think was necessary. So I'm cautiously eating a bit more in restaurants, getting out in the sun more, and increasing the types of my activity.
Physically, I'm doing very well. Occasional very minor side effects. Doing a lot of running, walking and swimming. Getting a few home maintenance projects done. Working full time. Enjoying my wonderful family.
Maybe my next post will be a bit deeper, or more melancholy, or even possibly weirder. But for now, all is wonderful and I refuse to be driven by my self imposed desirement for significance in writing.
