Musings of a Software Development Manager

Joe and Tom and Scum visited today. It’s nice to see family and friends. We had a good time and played our way through a game of Munchkin which Tom eventually won. For some reason Tom also had an itching for Jack in the Box (as I call it Jack in the [...]

After 24 days inside, I got permission today from my doctor to go for walks. I took him up on it this afternoon and walked for about 25 minutes with the new iPod. It felt great to stretch the legs again. I actually sweated, which I haven’t done since I had a [...]

The doctor just came by, and said I could go home tomorrow assuming when they pull my antibiotics today that I don’t develop any fevers! Yes, escape!!! If it works out Dec 28th would be exactly the day I predicted for getting out. I’m doing my happy dance now, and no [...]

I figured I haven’t posted many pictures of my adventure due to a number of factors. One being I didn’t have my digital camera with me. My backup option was an iSight video camera, which takes sort of blurry stills, and some effort to get the stills out. And then I was [...]

My WBC is up to 0.8. No major news today. Since my counts leveled off I’m looking at going home later in the week, but they could still suprise me. I’d really like to go home, but I’m trying to be patient. I should actually get to do some coding today, which [...]

Not much different from Christmas in prison.
I’m a little blue now. I miss watching Kassie open her presents and pontificate on that this is the best ever present. Kassie and Molly are coming by for a real short visit, but it should be great. I haven’t seen them in about 10 days [...]

Kassie drew a big heart on my come home calendar for Dec 23
Better news at 5am this morning. My WBC has skyrocketed to 0.8, so given this progression I should be at 2.0 or better tomorrow and they can release me to go home for Christmas. This is probably a bit of a pipe dream, [...]

White Blood Cell Counts are up
Great news today. After 8 days of waiting my counts have finally gone from less than 0.1 to 0.2 officially. So my stem cells are actually producing white blood cells again. I know they might go up and down a little from here, but this is great news. When they [...]

Mom’s gone home
Well it’s a bit lonely on the ward tonight. Micki just left to cover Kassie and Molly as they sleep and my Mom had to go back and take care of my Dad so he doesn’t go too stir crazy. The good news is I’m feeling pretty decent. Worst event of the day [...]

My stem cells are back
I slept most of the day they reinfused my stem cells. It’s a little bit of a non-event it only takes ten minutes. Today has been better, but I stil nap a lot. They’re a bit worried about by bloody noses, but I had millions of bloody noses as a kid [...]