Valentines Day

On the positive side, I got to spend a good portion of this Valentines Day with my sweetie. (And by that I mean Jan, in case anyone hasn't been staying current.) And I got in a walk and a shower.

On the negative side, I am a bag of woes:

1. Still no movement on the blood counts.

2. The whites of my eyes are still crimson (perhaps in honor of Valentines Day). The swelling is gone, though there is still some irritation and blurry vision. Over the next few weeks, the "whites" of my eyes will transition from red to dark red to brown to yellow to white. I need to get some sunglasses. The swelling around my eyes has gone down, but I'm now sporting a couple of black eyes. As the dermatologist (see woe number 4 below) said, "How does the other guy look?"

3. I am usually intensely congested in the nose. The post-nasal drip is more like a flow, which is disgusting enough on its own. It also interferes with my breathing, which interferes with my sleeping. Occasionally, it leads to coughing, which occasionally leads to gagging.

4. This morning we noticed a couple of new dime-sized rashes on my lower legs. Dermatologists took a look, and then took a biopsy. Didn't seem concerned, but they want to figure out what it is.

5. I've got a sore spot in my gum.

6. I have some kind of infection on the tip of my left middle finger. The doctors have been monitoring it for a couple of weeks now, but for the first time it is painful to the touch, so it is probably going to merit closer scrutiny..

7. My appetite is down. I partially blame the food, which, to put it charitably, is not nearly as good as they think it is. But there's clearly more than that at work, since I have made it only halfway through the first of several delicious chocolate bars that Mara brought me almost a week ago. Normally, I could happily eat a bar a day.

Other than that, Best Valentines Day Ever!