Not so up to date, Weekend Update

Another day at the clinic. Another dollar.
Each day Cathi has plugged along to the clinic visits. Friday & Sunday her friend Peggy took her to the clinic. Saturday & Monday it was her mother who attended with her. Most of the time she is coming home with the IV bag giving medications to treat the fungal pneumonia. One day it clicked off at 3:15am, and another fortunately it was just before bed.

Her current residence is in the upstairs bedroom at her Mom & Dad's house. She is very reliant and grateful for care from her parents. She does well to make it up and down the stairs even after all that time at the hospital. Her food and energy intake has not been what it has been in the past. Much of the time the food comes back as fast as it when down or even faster a few times. Some of the medications are creating a haze which makes it hard for her to focus on her recovery and health. But true to herself she is marching according to her doctors orders & keeps on working to put food down.

Brant Tidwell and some scouts (his son) came by on Saturday and did some yard cleanup & trimming to spruce up the house. Cathi drove by it later in the day and was so pleased to see the work & how nice the bushes looked. She had forgotten about the request made to the scouts a while ago. Cathi sends a big thanks for trimming the bushes and the yard work.

Work begun on her house this weekend to get it ready for her to live in it again. The demo crew (Walt, Dennis, Jeff, & Mike) gutted the guest bathroom to remove the molded items and clean it in preparation for the builder to start on Monday. The builder did check in and started on Monday, but a there is a little misdirection on the work instructions. 'I wonder how Cathi would have handled this?' But anything worth doing is worth doing twice. So work should be completed by the end of the week. After another round of sterilization she should be ready to move into the house. Ready, but a little timid after the last time that resulted in a rush to the hospital.

There is little progress on a timeline for the transplant as the focus has been to rid the lungs of the fungal pneumonia. The transplant is still eminent and they plan to do a bone marrow biopsy later in the week to check the status of the latest shot of her brothers cells that she received while in the hospital.

Cathi's spirits are not where they were or need to be. She needs to see a positive bone marrow biopsy and a date for the transplant. Each day the lungs continue to sound better, but each day little bumps keep happening. She had did not feel well on Sunday after the clinic visit that ended at noon. After staying in bed for the rest of the day, she had a fever in the evening and it was decided that needed to back to the hospital. After a few hours at the hospital she did come back home and had a clinic visit that was uneventful on Sunday.