Day +10

Time flies when you're having fun. Uh ........ yeah.

The fever was better today. In fact it was gone much of the morning. It's back up a little this evening. I felt well enough this morning to do 5 laps, but I haven't done much since then. I've been a real couch potato. It should be better tomorrow, the third day of antibiotics.

The doctor said this was pretty normal. When your white counts are this low for this long you can't help but get something. I told her I wanted to get back to being her text book boring patient.

This doctor, Dr. Shpall, is a she. She has kids and one wants to be an engineer. So she heard me going on about the Tech/ND game and asked about Tech and Atlanta. She asked if I knew the fight song and I told her I could sing it in my sleep. The next day she made me sing it. Keep in mind it wasn't just her there, but her entourage of 5 other women were there, too. I was a little embarassed but I didn't miss a word. Too bad there was a Virginia Tech grad and a Maryland grad in the entourage.

Trivia question. What school has all of its engineering programs ranked in the top 10 in the country? You guessed it -- Tech. Thanks to oldest daughter Laura, a UGA grad, for finding that fact. Laura could sing the Tech fight song at age 4 and went to most of the home games with me between age 4 and 18.

It's time for a couple of laps before bedtime. Not that "bedtime" counts for anything in the hospital. They wake you up constantly for something, or you have to go to the bathroom because they are pumping bag after bag of fluids in you.

The white count this morning, by the way, was 0.2, still pretty much nothing. The good news is that the platelet count was up for the 2nd day in a row, and the hemoglobin is trying to stabilize around 10.4. So we'll see what the whites look like tomorrow.