{"id":4853,"date":"2005-11-06T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2005-11-06T12:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4853"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:19:43","slug":"midday_of_rice_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4853","title":{"rendered":"Midday of RICE, day 2."},"content":{"rendered":"

An eventful – and funny – AM. First I go into the bathroom to brush my teeth (and pee \u2013 the constant IV, you know) with my small traveling tube of Crest. I start brushing and the toothpaste tastes funny \u2013 very funny. I thought \u201chow old is this stuff?\u201d And look at the label to find I am brushing my teeth with the small traveling tube of Preparation H (brought along just in case\u2026). Hope that\u2019s the worse thing that happens today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I went down the hall to get some coffee (along with my \u201ctail\u201d, the IV stand) and met another patient \u2013 Josh. We got to talking and I told him about my toothpaste mis-adventure and that I would probably post it. He then told me he\u2019d started his own web journal. He\u2019s actually having the same chemotherapy \u2013 ICE \u2013 but for a different lymphoma. Josh is 22. When I get the link I will put it here.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Got breakfast, but before I started Dr. Owen O\u2019Connor, the lymphoma attending physician this weekend, dropped in. I remembered him for my July stay and he (he said anyway) remembered me. I told him about the toothpaste adventure and he said \u201cwell at least you didn\u2019t put the Crest up your butt\u201d which I hadn\u2019t thought of. On more mundane level, he answered a few questions (including agreeing with Dr. Zelenetz on the dumbbell thing ([see post below]) and then re-started the Bactrim antibiotic. I had gone off it last week when I started the Augmentin for my sinus infection. I will be taking the Bactrim three days a week, prophylactically to prevent chest infections.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I then went down to 10AM Mass on the first floor. Got there at 10:02 and they\u2019d already started. I thought, \u201cthis will be a quicky \u2013 we\u2019ll be done at 10:30.\u201d (I was off by 13 seconds). There were a total of 13 people at the Mass. I\u2019m sure I recognized two people from going to Mass in July \u2013 a woman physician and a lady who takes communion to patients. 13 attendees is an incredible number for an institution with several hundred patients and hundreds more staff on a Sunday. Incredibly bad. Of course \u201cThe Church\u201d (or whoever) doesn\u2019t do much of a job of advertising the Mass or time. None of the staff on my floor (where the patients are mostly ambulatory) were sure what time Mass was. When I went to the front desk and asked, the staff was in the process of calling for the time, when I found the schedule on the sheet labeled \u201cPatient Recreation Department.\u201d Priests from the nearby Dominican-staffed parish of St. Catherine\u2019s celebrate the Mass. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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So now I\u2019m back, checking my email, while the chemotherapy has just started.  <\/span>It entails three different drugs and will run for about 27 hours.  <\/span>So I hope I\u2019ll be discharged around 4 o’clock, Monday afternoon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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More to follow later. I am reading a really fine book by Barbara Tuchman and will post about the latest book I finished a couple of days ago. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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