treasures in secret places

This is just a quick update as far as how my schedule is going and how to pray for me. I arrived here in Seattle on June 3, and now its the 27th. This whole first month has been a lot of very thorough testing, a few transfusions, some education and homework and meetings with different professionals. The first part was more concrete appointments and testing with physicians from various fields, and more recently I've made an advance directive, I'm applying for a grant, participating in research studies, counseling, nutrition, pharmacy, integrative medicine zoom calls, etc. Lately they've been more about what's coming up right ahead. They don't really burden you with too much knowledge of the chemo, radiation and medications until you need to know. And then you get it from 3 different angles and then pick up everything from the pharmacy, and talk with that pharmacist too, for a total of 4 people. Which is still not enough to preclude me from having to refer to my m...

Seattle week 2 recap and what I'm up to  I'm impressed with the clinic and the bone marrow transplant program. It is very thorough. For the first couple of weeks, I had several appointments each day. I met my team: my attending physician Dr. Salit, my nurse practitioner Meredith, and my nurse Dawn. I also have a scheduler, Cat who has this on her card:  > ^.^ <  She does a great job tightening things up and moving them around, and I'm thankful for all of them. The entire staff is very caring and professional. Now that I'm getting used to being here and have the lay of the land in my little corner of the world, the weather has been good, and I have had less appointment load (just one or two a day), I have been rediscovering my love for walking and exploring. On Sunday, I wandered up Capitol Hill just to the east of me, talking in the sights and the people. It was a beautiful sunny day after many rainy ones, and there were a lot of families out. I enjoy seeing a...

It's Tuesday morning (June 9th) and it's raining here. I heard on Thursday, May 21st that "they" wanted me in Seattle arriving the week of June 2. That was pretty short notice, and I asked about pushing it back, but since the two weeks following were booked out, it would have been that week or the week of the 23rd. So, rather than spending June fretting about going or giving Jesus two more weeks to heal me (which he can still do here), I came. When this was first floated as an idea about a year ago, I was more concerned about where I would live and who would be my caregivers (required after the transplant) than the process of the transplant itself. God has been so good, providing me a 2 bed, 2 bath apartment in a place with a shuttle (in case it rains or I'm not feeling well) to the clinic every 20 min and the grocery store 2 x a day. The apartment is at the very end of the hall, it's a corner apartment well away from the construction directly on the othe...