Day 17

More platelets then sleep. Watched a couple of soccer games today so that was a nice break from csi and law and order...which i'm watching now. White count still holding strong at nothing. Shocker, huh? Mom and Brit came over tonight and humored me for a few hours while i gave them an earful of nurse rants. haven't been outside in almost four weeks but i hear there was a nice break in the hot weather so i'm glad everybody got some nice weekend weather. i've developed a habit of keeping it pretty cold in here and then bundling up to get warm. the nurses keep trying to turn off the thermostat. don't they understand that i like the unnecessary process of warming up instead of cooling off? Brit just recently accepted a position as a nurse here at MD Anderson, so when the evening man nurse showed up to change the bandage that covers the port that is sticthed into my shoulder, she took advantage and did some observing. this apparently threw man nurse off a little bit because he proceded to sissify me by cleaning the crap out of my shoulder with a little too much elbow grease. nothing says humiliation like inflicting pain with a cotton swab. thanks, man nurse. that was the apex of my day. boring is good.

alright, take care.