DAY 11 OF TREATMENT

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Hello to all.   Quite day today. Mike had his usual treatments.  This morning we met with Dr. Weber to get the results of his blood testing from Monday.  We missed him yesterday due to us going up on the mountain. As I mentioned last week, two of Mike's  liver tests that show up in the blood were normal and the third one was high.    He told us all three of these things are now within the normal level.  His platelets are good.  However, his WBC have gone down to (I think) 2.5.  He said this was not dangerous.  He said he would give him some magnesium which increases the efficiency of the white blood cells.  He is going to test the WBCs tomorrow.  

Today's lunch was Turkey kebob with ginger rice for Mike.  He did not eat the white rice.  Mine was spinach pasta in 4 cheese sauce.  Dessert was Bavarian curd cream which was very good.  I had the clear tomato zucchini soup.  The other option for soup was creamy pumpkin soup with oil. I may try that one tonight. Supper's menu is  French cheese buffet with potatoes.

While we were sitting at the dining table after we were done eating, Mike excused himself and went up to the room. When he did not come right back, I went up to see what he was doing.  I found him laying on his bed. When I asked what was wrong, he stated that he had a couple of red bumps pop up on his arm and that his head felt really warm and it was red  He did not want me to get a nurse or Dr. Weber.   Mike from Tazmania was meeting with Dr. Weber and told him about Mike's breakout.  He came right to the room to check on Mike.  He asked Mike why he did not come see him.  Any way, Dr. Weber checked his arm and looked at and felt his head.   He then grabbed him by the arm and told him he was going to take him downstairs now and give him an infusion with calcium and magnesium.  By the time they got downstairs, Dr. Weber checked him again. The spots on his arm and head were not so red.  Dr. Weber joked that it was his healing hand that cured this condition.   Mrs. Dr. Weber had advised Dr. Weber of Mike's similar symptoms last week.  The only thing Mike had different today was the Thimus injection.   We are thinking that is when he had the reaction last week.   Because this calmed down, Dr. Weber only had the nurse give him 1/2 of the calcium/magnesium cocktail.   Mike stayed in that room and tried to sleep but it was too noisy so he came up to our room,   He probably slept 2 hours.   He woke up about a 1/2 hour before his hyperthermia treatment.

Mike states he was absolutely fine before lunch.   Leah had Mike eat a tablespoon of her coconut oil.  That is what Mike thinks caused his head to get red and hot. So I doubt he will eat or use that any more. Hopefully that is the last of that.   He states he is feeling better.

Today has been gorgeous again.  We are talking about taking the train into Rosenheim on Saturday.
I just went and checked some statistics on this blog.     This blog was been seen in China - 1 view, Russia - 2 views, Serbia - 9 views, Canada -11 views, Germany - 16 views, the United Kingdom - 17 views, and the United States at the top with 503 views.  That is interesting.  I bet the ones in Canada are by our friend, Tammy.  The other ones from other countries are probably just from people coming across them on the blog site.