My Bone Marrow Transplant

I’ve had this head cold and non-productive cough for a week now. I guess my system is finding it hard to overcome because of the immune suppression. Hopefully the anti-bacterial co-trimaxazole, which I only take at weekends, will help to kill it off. The nausea has been stronger the past 48 hours, especially at dinner time, which isn’t helping. Maybe the doctor will prescribe some antibiotics for the cold when I see him on Tuesday. My Itraconazole supply is critically low so I have cut down the dose to make it last.

The weather doesn’t help, it’s been raining hard most of the past 2 days. Real, heavy, asian rain. Proper rain; not that pussy stuff they “endure” in Europe. I swear that our apartment was in low cloud when I woke up at 6am yesterday morning. When you can’t see a major city centre about 2km away through the rain, that’s rain! There were a few fools on the golf course when it eased a bit, and the Polo field was well on its way to becoming a boating lake on Saturday morning.

I foresee a long discussion with the doctor next week about this experimental treatment they are thinking of putting me on, Vidaza (Azacitidine) at low doses.