5-7 Day

It's been a few days since I posted, so I figured I'd better get this thing updated. Have been feeling pretty good for the last few days and a lot of the nasty side effects have subsided. A few are still here and bugging me.

My tastes buds seem to still be out of whack. Food is tasting better than it did a week ago, but things still aren't like they're supposed to be. Meat doesn't seem to have the nasty metallic taste, but for some reason things just taste bland and no matter what I do, I can't improve them. We bought a bag of pistachios at Costco yesterday. I ate some this afternoon and couldn't even taste the salt on them. They tasted very bland and totally unsalty. I don't what's going on...seems like I have an issue with salt and not being able to taste it for some reason.

Other issue is that it appears my PICC line is getting infected. This has been ongoing for almost a week now with no improvement. Friday night I was having a lot of pain shooting up and down my arm and around my armpit where the PICC line goes in. Seemed better Saturday so we just have been monitoring it over the weekend. I'm calling the nurse at the Oncologist tomorrow morning and hopefully they'll want me to come in and have a look at it. I've been taking antibiotics for the the last 7 days for the infection around the feeding tube, but that doesn't look any better either.
My stomach is a little sore about 6 inches all around from where the tube goes in, and that is also bothersome.
I tell you what, this stupid PICC line and Feeding tube are major pains in the a$$. This treatment can't get over soon enough for me.

Ringing in the ears have subsided a little, but it seems that instead of it coming and going with real noticeable changes, I now just have a constant, not as loud as before, but a constant ringing in the ears. I don't know what the doctors are going to do about it. I talked to Dr. Debo's (ENT doctor) nurse about it Friday and was informed that the doctor was advised, and if he wanted to see me prior to my scheduled appointment on the 22nd, they'd call me for an early appointment. So far nothings happened.

Other than that, things remain the same around here. I'm getting sick of sitting around here all day with not much to do, but whenever we go out and do something, I start to feel tired and not very good after a while, so I'm trying to keep busy here...lots of short walks with Coho I guess.

Glad to hear my buddies in Washington finally have power back after that storm. With all the fallen tress in the area, JR shouldn't have to worry about firewood for a long time.