Yuval and Vivian left, Oded arrived! So the sleeper sofa continues to be very useful and even reasonably comfortable and we are very happy with all the company. We went for a long and cold walk in Central Park and then last night we had our modified Thanksgiving dinner .
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Today we 3 went together to the hospital for the bi-weekly appointment (by bi-weekly I mean the second definition in https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biweekly — twice a week). The big news today is that the Hickman port was yanked out! Avi says this was done in the most casual fashion — literally was yanked out by a physician's assistant. From tomorrow on Avi is free to splash around in the shower to his heart's content – the small pleasures in life!
More importantly his numbers continue improving. Today he got another dose of Rituxan – he is due to get 3 more, once a week until December 20. Some people react very badly to it, but luckily we already know that Avi tolerates it very well. They do give him a lot of Benadryl and a Tylenol before they start the infusion which make him drowsy but otherwise it's a very easy infusion.
It's going to be a cold weekend. Nonetheless we hope to take a few more walks. Museums are an obvious solution to cold weekends but we are afraid they will be a bit too crowded. We may try one nonetheless.
Today we 3 went together to the hospital for the bi-weekly appointment (by bi-weekly I mean the second definition in https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biweekly — twice a week). The big news today is that the Hickman port was yanked out! Avi says this was done in the most casual fashion — literally was yanked out by a physician's assistant. From tomorrow on Avi is free to splash around in the shower to his heart's content – the small pleasures in life!
More importantly his numbers continue improving. Today he got another dose of Rituxan – he is due to get 3 more, once a week until December 20. Some people react very badly to it, but luckily we already know that Avi tolerates it very well. They do give him a lot of Benadryl and a Tylenol before they start the infusion which make him drowsy but otherwise it's a very easy infusion.
It's going to be a cold weekend. Nonetheless we hope to take a few more walks. Museums are an obvious solution to cold weekends but we are afraid they will be a bit too crowded. We may try one nonetheless.